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Reading Fiction: Whale Adventure
In this worksheet, students will test their comprehension of an extract of the 1960 children's book 'Whale Adventure'.
Key stage: KS 3
Curriculum topic: Reading
Curriculum subtopic: Check Understanding
Worksheet Overview
QUESTION 1 of 10
Read this extract from Whale Adventure by Willard Price and answer the following questions. You may find it helpful to print the text.
Whale Adventure
Suddenly the whale changed direction. The boat was yanked round to the right so forcibly that a man who had stood up to bail a bucket of water into the sea went over the side.
Roger was amazed that no one did anything about it.
'Man overboard!' he yelled. Surely they would cut the tow-line, turn the boat about and go back to the rescue. But the mate gave no such order. He stood, gripping the steering-oar, gazing straight ahead at the speeding whale. The other men were equally silent. They kept on scooping out the water. The mate noticed that Roger had stopped work and was staring at him in astonishment.
'Bail, boy, bail!'
'But the man - '
'One of the other boats may pick him up. If not, it's his bad luck.' Seeing the shocked look on Roger's face the mate went on: 'You'll soon learn, boy. Whaling is a serious business. That big bull has a hundred barrels of oil in him. What d'ye think the captain would say if we let him go just to pick a man out of the water?'
Roger went back to bailing. He felt he was in a world of a hundred years ago. The whaling ship Killer stuck to the old traditions. Human life was cheap. What mattered was barrels of oil. Today, men who work are protected by many safety devices. In the old days a man must look out for himself and devil take him if he didn't look sharp. Today, we are quite careful not to kill one man at a time - we only plan to kill a hundred thousand or a million at one blow with a hydrogen bomb. Roger gave up trying to figure which were more cruel, the old days or the new.
Suddenly the line slackened. The whale had again changed direction. It was now coming straight for the boat.
It had not been able to get rid of its enemy by running away. Now it was going to attack. It opened its enormous jaws, revealing a cavern big enough to take boat and all. It was like looking through the door into a room twenty feet long and twelve feet wide.
But it was not a comfortable-looking room. The floor was paved with sharp teeth a foot long and weighing as much as four pounds each. The upper jaw had no teeth, but a row of sockets into which the teeth of the lower jaw would fit when the mouth was closed. It would be too bad for the man or the boat that happened to get ground into one of those sockets like meal in a mortar.
Roger had learned enough about whales to know that the sperm is a man-eater and a boat-eater. It is quite different from the toothless baleen, or whalebone-whale, that has nothing in its mouth but a big sieve to catch the small creatures of the sea that are its food. Such a whale couldn't swallow a man, and wouldn't want to. It could take a thousand crayfish but wouldn't know what to do with a shark.
But the big sperm has no use for the little titbits that can be found on the surface of the sea. His favourite food is the enormous cuttle-fish sometimes fifty feet long and equipped with a great savage beak that may kill the whale or wound it so badly that it will carry the scars for the rest of its life.
Such a whale can swallow a man as easily as a man may swallow a pill. Many times whalers have found a shark twelve feet long or longer in the stomach of a sperm-whale.
'Lay to the oars!' yelled the mate.
The men left bailing to row. The boat had not yet lost the momentum of its swift flight over the sea. This, helped by the rowing, carried it forward fast enough, so that when the whale arrived the boat was no longer there. It barely missed the jaws, which closed on the steering-oar, crunching it to bits.
Away went the whale, only to turn and come back again towards the boat. This time it dived, as if planning to come up beneath the boat and toss it into the air.
'Hang on!' shouted the mate.
The men clutched the gunwales and waited for the shock.
Why was the mate unconcerned about the fate of the man who had fallen overboard?
Support your answer with a quotation from the text.
Look at the paragraph which begins 'Roger went back to bailing'. Explain why Roger was so shocked.
Select a quotation from the text that makes a wry comment about the absurdity of today's safety devices.
Why, according to the extract, was the sperm whale so frightening? Remember to support your answer with a quotation from the text.
What risk does the sperm whale take in return for its favourite meal? Support your answer with a quotation from the text.
In the last line of the extract, what shock were the men expecting?
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Award up to two marks for a correct answer with a good quotation:
He was more concerned about the value of the whale oil and that the captain would be angry. For example he says: 'What d'ye think the captain would say if we let him go just to pick a man out of the water?'
Roger was shocked by the little value that was placed on human life. For example the text states: 'What mattered was barrels of oil.'
'Today, we are quite careful not to kill one man at a time - we only plan to kill a hundred thousand or a million at one blow with a hydrogen bomb.'
The sperm whale is frightening because it is a man-eater. For example: 'Such a whale can swallow a man as easily as a man may swallow a pill.'
It will eat a cuttle fish 'sometimes fifty feet long and equipped with a great savage beak' even though the whale may be badly injured or even killed in the process.
The whale was heading for the boat and was likely to toss it in the air.
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The Shark Game
The Shark Game is one of the best idle games available to play. It's free, has cute art, solid puns, and some interesting design choices. It's also possible to experience everything the game has to offer within a day or two if you if you play efficiently. For these reasons I encourage anyone interested in game design or idle games to give this game a spin.
For those that find the discovery element of idle games very important consider this a minor spoiler warning, go check it out and come back here in a bit. The next section discusses some of the mechanics and the reasons I think it's a game worth playing.
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First spoiler warning If you want to go in completely blind stop reading now.
In Shark Game you take on the role of a shark in a strange blue sea. You start game manually catching fish by clicking, from there you recruit more sharks and other aquatic friends who will help you collect more resources. As you gather more and more of a variety of resources you will eventually unlock technologies and the ability to reset and move to a new world where you can reset the game with a persistent bonus.
There are two reasons why I think anyone interested in idle games, particularly from a design perspective, should play this game.
First is the how well coordinated the setting and atmosphere are. The UI is easy on the eyes and the art is adorable, the simple colors and shapes work well with the theme. There is also a lots of humor slipped into the text of the game, be sure to toggle descriptions on. Also be sure to check out the options menu, there are some good UI options that aren't enabled by default.
Second is the complexity of the resource system. The game dozens of resources when you can collect, some of those resources can be used to buy things directly while others can be process into other resources or will generate new resources. Importantly there is overlap in the things that produce resources. As an example sharks generate 1 fish per second while rays only produce 0.2 fish but also produce 1 sand.
Worlds will give varying bonuses and penalties to resource. This combined with the persistent upgrades the player will purchase forces the player must continually reevaluate their build paths.
This resource system is compounded by the reset system. Once you get sufficiently deep in the tech tree you unlock the gate. The gate lists 6 randomized resources you need to feed it in order to move to the next world. The quantity of resources needed tends to be very large, it's enough that you will want to adapt what you are producing to focus on meeting the requirements.
From here on I'll be talking about the problems with the game as well as the most efficient way to play the game. If you haven't played the game yet I encourage you to do so and come back to this once you have gone through the gate a few times.
Second spoiler warning, if you don't want to be told how to min/max the game or want hear my opinions on the game stop here.
I think there are two main problems with the game that could be fixed without altering the feel of the game.
The first is the ability to recycle resources. This ability takes all the variety of the resources and the gate and throws them out the window. Your goal is to create as much as possible of the resource you can efficiently convert into residue, you then convert into the 6 resources bypassing all the interesting bits. There are also some loops with the recycler that net more resources than you put in letting generate them at an exponential rate.
The second problem is the game doesn't really change as you progress. Once you get past early game and especially once you figure out how to speed through worlds there is no real variety to the game play. There is no noticeable difference in play between a level world at climate level 1 and 100.
Playing the game efficiently is unfortunately fairly straightforward. On every world the early and late game is pretty much the same, only the middle part differs.get crystal and turn it into science and research the early technologies. Once you get to shark machines build them as they allow you to move past the crystal bottle neck. From there the builds split depending on the world, they are all focused on producing as much as you can of the thing you can produce most efficiently, generally but not always it's something that produces another producer, that lets you get two sets of multipliers on the final resource. However it happens at the end you feed all of your resources into the recycler and turn it into the resources you need to get through the gate.
For most worlds going all in on Berry Sprayers is the way to go, it gives you two levels of multipliers like breeders do but dodges the penalties a few worlds put on them since they are a machine. Just tech till you hit them and then recycle clams and sand into more Sprayers until you get enough to recycle into whatever you need.
Once you go through the game you will be offered three worlds to go to, their climate level determines how much essence you get and is a random amount based on the current world. Always choose the highest number to maximizes the essence you get.
If I were updating the game myself these are the things I'd look at doing.
Remove the ability to recycle things. This will force people to adapt to the world they are on. And add diversity to gameplay and force people to explore new parts of the game.
Have the game end at world 100. By the time the player gets to that level they will have seen pretty much everything the game has to offer. A cute splash screen at the end and some words would complete the experience of play the game.
Throw in some additional modifiers to each world so the game plan on each world is slightly different. It's less fun when you know exactly what you will be doing as soon as you see the level. Things to do could include adding or removing technologies, additional bonuses to various resources, have resources producing new things they didn't before or removing resources.
Add a little bit of clarity for the upgrades. Some of them are a bit unclear on what exactly they do. Include in the description a list of the things the upgrade unlocks. Similarly it might be useful to also have things you are close to unlocking appear grayed out to give a hint of where to go next.
Either remove the whalesong upgrade or expand on it. I like the concept of potentially having a cool thing that helps out people that want to play slower or are going on vacation but as it is it's just a trap. If I had to choose I'd drop it, this game doesn't need it.
Add variety to the upgrades. Having the upgrades be shuffle around or not alway available would add some unpredictability in the run. Going a step further there could be upgrades that you have to choose between, something like Master of Orion 2 techs.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speak to reporters as work gets underway on the Senate's version of the GOP tax reform bill on Nov. 9 in Washington.
Proposed changes to the federal tax code unveiled by Republican lawmakers at the start of this month would affect teachers' tax burden, private and charter schools, and significant amounts of funding for public schools.
Two different versions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act were introduced in the House and Senate this week. The bills don't represent a direct increase or decrease for federal spending on schools. However, it could affect both K-12 funding systems and educators' pocketbooks in several ways.
If the bill passes Congress and is signed into law by President Donald Trump, it would be the biggest shift to the federal tax system since 1986. Republicans are aiming to pass the legislation by the end of the year, and the House Ways and Means Committee passed its version of the legislation this week.
But the proposals face a long and potentially difficult road ahead in Congress.
Perhaps the biggest direct impact in the legislation would be the repeal of deductions taxpayers could claim on several state and local taxes (known in Washington jargon as SALT). In the House version, although they could still claim a tax deduction for up to $10,000 of local property taxes, taxpayers could no longer deduct state and local income and sales taxes from their federal tax returns. In the Senate bill, the property tax deduction as well as the income and sales tax deductions would be repealed.
Republicans say ending the deductions are part of the bills' broader attempts to simplify the tax code and also make the tax landscape fairer across states. But some education advocates are worried that with many taxpayers forced to declare more income for federal taxation under this proposal, state and local governments would feel significant pressure to cut their own tax rates in order to relieve at least some of the new burden.
That, in turn, could shrink the tax revenue available for state and local leaders to spend on public schools, particularly in states where taxes are relatively high.
A 2011 report from the Center on Education Policy, a research organization founded by a former Democratic aide on Capitol Hill, estimated that ending all state and local tax deductions would deprive schools of $17 billion in funding. And the deductions were worth $97 billion in state and local government funding in 2016, according to a separate analysis by former U.S. Department of Education official Michael Dannenberg.
What does the GOP tax bill mean for teachers? Watch the video.
"It shows how much this conversation of tax reform is about making numbers add up and not making it work for the people they represent, particularly the people who rely on the state and local tax deduction, a lot of middle-class people, and our nation's public school system," said Noelle Ellerson Ng, the associate executive director of AASA, the School Superintendents Association.
The House and Senate bills would also end the $250 tax deduction teachers, principals, and other educators can take for personal money they spend on classroom supplies. The deduction is structured so that teachers and others don't need to itemize their tax returns in order to claim it.
Lawmakers created the deduction for educators in the tax code in 2002. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, pushed to introduce it into the tax code, and she could be a key vote on any Senate effort to overhaul taxes.
For the 2015 tax year, there were more than 3.7 million tax returns in which taxpayers claimed the classroom-expenses deduction, according to information from the Internal Revenue Service. (That figure doesn't equal the number of educators who actually claimed the deduction.) The total amount of money subsequently deducted from taxable income was $950 million, the IRS said.
The repeal of the $250 deduction represents a relatively small change to the tax code. But it is used widely by teachers and others, and in theory, the end of the deduction could affect which tax bracket some teachers find themselves in.
However, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., singled out the end of the $250 deduction for teachers during the same hearing, asking, "How can we punish teachers who are just trying to buy supplies for their classrooms?"
Although U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has failed so far to get traction for her school choice expansion proposals in Congress, lawmakers did make one change that could make it easier for some to go to private schools.
The tax bill would allow 529 college-savings plans to also be used for K-12 expenses of up to $10,000 annually, including for private school tuition. Contributions to these plans are tax-deductible. The legislation would simultaneously end Coverdell accounts, in which tax-deferred savings can be used for up to $2,000 annually for K-12 expenses.
DeVos hailed the move as a good step forward for school choice. The idea has long been a top K-12 priority for the conservative Heritage Foundation, where the director of the Center for Education Policy, Lindsey Burke, said the growing amount of savings in 529 accounts represents an increasing awareness of the accounts in general. That means, she said, they could represent significant growth for private school choice. On Heritage's website, Burke wrote that in general, the bill's change to 529 accounts "would enable families to save for K-12 education-related expenses while increasing their ability to pay for education options outside the public school system."
A 2016 survey by Edward Jones, an investment firm, found that 72 percent of Americans had not heard of 529 college-savings plans. And a 2014 survey conducted for the College Savings Foundation reported that about 63 percent of those using 529 plans had annual household incomes of $100,000 or more.
"Generally, I'm working with high-net-worth individuals" who use 529s, said Bob Williams, the senior vice president and managing director of the Simmons First Investment Group in Little Rock, Ark.
Charter school advocates have their own beef with the House bill, since it would end a charter's ability to pay for a new school building with proceeds from bonds that are tax-exempt. Charters' ability to refinance outstanding debt with those same tax-exempt bonds would also end under the legislation.
"Borrowing on a tax-exempt basis saves charter schools millions of dollars every year—dollars that can remain in the classroom," Nina Rees, the president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, wrote in a letter to lawmakers this week after the bill was released.
"Senate Tax Bill Ends Deductions for State and Local Taxes, Classroom Supplies," (Politics K-12) November 9, 2017.
"How Would Typical Teachers Fare Under the GOP's Tax Bill?," November 7, 2017.


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Graham Rahal Qualified 14th for the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma
BMW Team RLL Finishes 3rd and 4th at Virginia International Raceway; Edwards/Müller Race to 2nd Consecutive Podium Finish
Rahal Pit From the Lead for 2.2 Gallons of Fuel After He Led the GoPro Grand Prix for 18 Laps; Finished 20th
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RAHAL PIT FROM THE LEAD FOR 2.2 GALLONS OF FUEL AFTER HE LED 18 LAPS OF THE GOPRO GRAND PRIX OF SONOMA; FINISHED 20TH
GRAHAM RAHAL, No. 15 National Guard Dallara/Honda/Firestone: "The National Guard car was great today. We fought hard and obviously we passed the guys that we needed to pass when we needed to pass them and got to the front. Unfortunately we came up short again. Man, I don't know when things are going to break for me. We'll just have to keep working hard, keep our heads down. I think the car has some speed. We've got one more race to get National Guard a win and I hope we can do it. For a second I thought it (a win) might happen. The team didn't say anything to me for a while and I thought 'Shoot, I might have gotten the mileage. They were just counting down the laps to go and the next thing I know, the light comes on and I've got to pit. All around its disappointing but that's the way it goes. We were taking extreme measures (to stretch the fuel), we were running a yellow (situation) map and running with all kinds of stuff off to try to get an extra bit of fuel and we got what we needed to get. It just wasn't going to be enough. I said to the team in the strategy meeting "Guys, a double, triple, or homerun doesn't do anything for us now. Only a Grand Slam does.' But we missed."
FAST FACTS: Rahal avoided a multi-car collision on the start and moved from 14th to 12th. He pit out of sequence on Lap 8 and climbed up to run fourth before his second stop where he pit under caution with Sato and Conway, but those two topped off two additional times before green conditions which helped them later. Rahal climbed back into fourth when the majority of the field pitted during a caution for Saavedra and later passed Briscoe, Kanaan and Conway to take the lead on Lap 64 of 85 which he held until Lap 81 when he had to pit for 2.2 gallons of fuel. Due to extreme fuel conservation, the fuel setting he had been running in didn't have Pit Lane Speed control and he was given a drive through penalty for speeding when he entered the pits for his splash of fuel and served it on Lap 84 of 85 which ultimately resulted in a 20th place finish… It was his seventh Indy car race here. His best start is sixth place with Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing (NHLR) in 2009 and best finish is fifth with Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing (SCCGR) in 2012. He has finished in the top-10 in all but two of his six races (broken drive shaft in '09; contact while sixth in '13). Rahal qualified eighth in 2013, ran as high as sixth but contact while in the middle of a three-wide situation dropped him to the back and he rallied to finish 11th. He qualified 15th for SCCGR in 2012, started 13th after grid penalties were served and finished fifth. He qualified 13th for SCCGR in 2011 and finished eighth. In 2010, he qualified 16th with NHR and finished 9th. Made the final Firestone Fast Six in qualifying six times in the seven road/street races in 2009 and started sixth in Sonoma for NHLR. Contact on the opening lap with Marco Andretti forced an early stop for a new front wing but his drive shaft broke when he attempted to leave the pits. After the car was repaired in the garage area, he returned to the track many laps down in 21st position and ultimately retired in the same place after completing 30 of the 75 laps. He started 15th and finished 8th here in 2008 with NHLR… His best finish this season is second place in Detroit Dual 1 and best start is fourth in Race 2 of the 2014 Houston doubleheader.
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by Robert C Obrien
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Ellen awakens one morning with a mysterious silver crown on the pillow beside her. What magic powers it possesses she has not yet discovered, but the sudden changes in her life are unmistakable: her house is burned down, her family has disappeared, and a man in a dark uniform is stalking her. Can Ellen ever find her family? Can she use the power of the silver crown to thwart the powers of darkness? What diabolical force hides inside the mysterious castle in the woods?
In real life, Robert C. O'Brien was Robert Leslie Conly. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, attended Williams College and graduated from the University of Rochester. He studied piano at the Eastman School of Music, and at one time considered becoming a musician. Instead, he became a writer and editor for such magazines as Newsweek and National Geographic. He lived in New York City and then in Washington, D.C., and he and his wife had one son and three daughters. His other books for young readers include the Newbery Medal winner Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, which was the basis for the animated film The Secret of NIMH, and Z for Zachariah, which was completed by his wife and daughter with the help of his notes after his death in 1973.
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A legend in all facets. There is no argument. When he made the move to Seattle in 2001 he became the first Japanese position player to sign with an MLB team. The rest is history.
Ichiro is one of seven players in MLB history with at least 3,000 hits and 500 stolen bases. He joins the elite company of Lou Brock, Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins, Rickey Henderson, Paul Molitor and Honus Wagner. In addition Ichiro made 10 All-Star appearances.
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Once you have done that you can issue the Powershell commands required to create a Room List and add your Resource to it.
Add-DistributionGroupMember –Identity "Meeting Rooms" -Member "Board room"
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R. GRANT INGLIS
200-252 Pall Mall Street London, ON, N6A 5P6
ginglis@scottpetrie.com
Grant received his under-graduate degree in 1970 from the University of Western Ontario. He attended graduate school at the University of New Brunswick in 1971 and entered Dalhousie Law School, now known as the Schulich School of Law, in 1971, graduating in 1974. He articled with the London law firm of Robarts, Betts, McLennan and Flinn in 1975, attended the Bar Course in Toronto in 1976, and was called to the Bar in 1976.
In 1976, Grant joined the firm of McLennan, Flinn and Driesman (formerly Robarts, Betts, McLennan and Flinn), which in time merged with and became known as McLennan, Wright. In 1986, he joined the firm of Shepherd, McKenzie and continued with that firm until 1991. In 1991, he became a partner of Plaxton, Little which, in turn, became Little, Parker & Inglis and later, Little, Inglis, Price & Ewer. Grant Inglis and Kim Little joined Scott Petrie LLP in November, 2019.
Grant has been involved as general counsel for many organizations, including both for profit and not for profit corporations. He has acted as advisor for various Conservation Authorities and is recognized in the areas of corporate/commercial and in business law, which form a substantial basis of his practice. His experience has touched all aspects of law and as such, he is capable of giving a broad range of advice to his clients. He has been retained as independent counsel to provide advice and services to various firms in attempting to resolve corporate and shareholder disputes and issues. Grant obtained a mediation certificate from the University of Windsor.
Grant is a member of the Middlesex Law Association and the Canadian Bar Association. He is the founding Director, Past President, and current Treasurer of Cheshire Homes of London Inc. He is also a past Director of Distress Centre Inc., Youth Opportunities Unlimited, and Audio Tactile Networking ("ATN"), and a Past President of the Parent Council at both John Paul II Secondary School and Mother Theresa High School.
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Coffee is For Closers . . .
Think I'll Put the Dentist Off . . .
I hope that you are enjoying some of these. A lot of clunkers, to be sure, but a few that might last past the warranty.
What I find funny and what you find funny may perhaps, in a happy accident, intersect. We can, stifling giggles, exchange insurance information, and move on with our lives.
As I have previously stated, I am assembling enough work to then submit to the syndicated Cartoon Gods (like us only they eat better), and gain some wider exposure. I will winnow the wheat from the chaff (I believe that is how it goes. I'm no farmer), and submit the . . . wheat? The chaff will reside here for all to peruse until the sun becomes a Red Giant, billions of years hence.
I enjoy the pursuit of funny, and am constantly course-correcting so as not to alienate my audience . . . (sound of crickets) Whoops, looks like I already did! Thanks to those of you, who have stuck by me since the beginning, you know who the both of you are. (Boom! Tish!) Your likes and comments are the fuel (in addition to an Americano) that keep me going!
This was the sight I was treated to on a small trip to Steveston, just south Of Vancouver Canada, a former Japanese fishing village. The rest of Canada holds us in contempt, with our laid back and chill attitudes. This picture will not help matters.
I wouldn't like to be near it on the highway if a stiff breeze suddenly launched it skyward. Despite what you may have heard, we no longer commute by kayak up here. Still, it made us smile.
Inspired by my last oil change. Look, I'm just not a car guy, though I have a completely useless encyclopedic knowledge of cars from the 70s and 80s, thanks to careful cataloguing on long family road trips to Minnesota, and the Dakotas.


These no-yeast rolls do not need to rise, so preparation time is much quicker. They 're filled with lots of butter, cinnamon sugar and a good sprinkling of raisins, and then they 're topped with a powdered sugar glaze.
Cream 1/3 cup butter or margarine, brown sugar, and cinnamon together. Drop 1 teaspoon into each of 12 greased muffin tins. Reserve the remaining mixture.
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Cut in 1/4 cup butter or margarine until crumbly. Make a well in center, and pour in milk. Stir to form a soft dough, adding a bit more milk if needed.
Turn dough out on lightly floured surface. Knead 8 to 10 times. Roll into rectangle about 1/3 inch thick and 12 inches long. Spread the remaining cinnamon mixture over dough rectangle. Sprinkle currants or raisins over top. Roll up as for jelly roll. Mark first, then cut into 12 slices. Place cut side down in muffin pan.
Bake in 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes. Turn out on a tray.
To confectioners sugar, add enough milk or water to make a thin glaze. Drizzle over cinnamon rolls.


The Diplomat Adept DA110A dental unit is an upgraded version of the DA110 model. This dental element is designed to be stationary and can be equipped with up to five instruments on the dentist's panel with lower or upper instruments hose delivery system. The dentist's element is mounted on a swiveling or a pantographic arm. The dentist can conveniently control all the functions using a keyboard on the dentist's element or a foot controller. The unit is supplied with a removable sterilizable spittoon bowl. The X-ray viewer can be installed upon special request.
The DA110A: a perfectly reliable and functional dental unit for a reasonable price.


Once you have the loot, you need to get away with it.
Battlefield™ Hardline: Getaway is the third of four expansion packs included in Battlefield™ Hardline Premium, and available as a standalone purchase. Getaway introduces 4 new vehicle-focused maps, including Double Cross, Pacific Highway, Train Dodge, and Diversion, and the new Capture the Bag mode. Compete in competitive matches with the new Super Feature, all while using one of the 4 new vehicles (Performance Sedan, Import Tuner, Luxury Coupe, Limo), 4 new weapons, the Fire Axe melee weapon, the RF Jammer gadget, and 4 new weapon camos.


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class CBasePresence : public IPresence, public CAutoGameSystemPerFrame
{
public:
	// CBaseGameSystemPerFrame overrides
	virtual bool		Init( void );
	virtual void		Shutdown( void );
	virtual void		Update( float frametime );
	virtual char const	*Name( void ) { return "presence"; }

	// IPresence Interface
	virtual void 		UserSetContext( unsigned int nUserIndex, unsigned int nContextId, unsigned int nContextValue, bool bAsync = false );
	virtual void 		UserSetProperty( unsigned int nUserIndex, unsigned int nPropertyId, unsigned int nBytes, const void *pvValue, bool bAsync = false );
	virtual void		SetupGameProperties( CUtlVector< XUSER_CONTEXT > &contexts, CUtlVector< XUSER_PROPERTY > &properties );
	virtual uint		GetPresenceID( const char *pIdName );
	virtual void		GetPropertyDisplayString( uint id, uint value, char *pOutput, int nBytes );
	virtual const char	*GetPropertyIdString( const uint id );

	// Stats reporting
	virtual void		StartStatsReporting( HANDLE handle, bool bArbitrated );
	virtual void		SetStat( uint iPropertyId, int iPropertyValue, int dataType );
	virtual void		UploadStats();

protected:
	bool							m_bArbitrated;
	bool							m_bReportingStats;
	HANDLE							m_hSession;
	CUtlVector< XUSER_PROPERTY >	m_PlayerStats;

	//---------------------------------------------------------
	// Debug support
	//---------------------------------------------------------
	CON_COMMAND_MEMBER_F( CBasePresence, "user_context", DebugUserSetContext, "Set a Rich Presence Context: user_context <context id> <context value>", 0 )
	CON_COMMAND_MEMBER_F( CBasePresence, "user_property", DebugUserSetProperty, "Set a Rich Presence Property: user_property <property id>", 0 )
};

#endif // BASEPRESENCE_H

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It has happened. After almost a year of threatening to invade the Kurdish-held Afrin pocket in north-western Syria Erdogan has invaded for real. Attacking forces have already taken a number of villages on the Turkish-Syrian border. In one place they have advanced 5 kilometers into Syria.
Turkish military already poured over the Syrian border in mid-2016 and has been occupying a part of northern Syria ever since, but that chunk was wrestled from ISIS. Strategically the invasion was an anti-Kurdish move, designed to prevent Syrian Kurds in the west and the east from being able to link up their territories, but on the ground it was fought against ISIS. For that reason neither US nor Russia could really object to it, and actually both provided air cover for the Turkish military and its proxies, sometimes at the same time.
Invading Kurdish-held Syria, on the other hand, is something else entirely. It is a whole new ballgame, and the start of yet another war, the Turkish-Kurdish War in Syria.
So far the invasion is conducted by Syrian Islamist fighters, supposed "rebels" in Turkish employ, backed by Turkish bombers, artillery and armor. I say so far because albeit initially successful I doubt the ex-rebels can overrun Afrin. It is easily within Turkey's power to take the small ethnic enclave on its border, but only if its military again leads the way.
This was exactly the case in 2016. On their own the "rebels" salaried by Turks were being constantly rebuffed by ISIS as any gains were quickly negated in counter-attacks. It wasn't until the Turkish military took a leading role that Erdogan's forces started to make real gains.
That said even the Turkish army did not give a stellar account of itself in the offensive. ISIS managed to put ten of its powerful German-built Leopard 2 tanks out of action, two of those were even abandoned on the battlefield for ISIS. Moreover the entire operation took seven months. That is 7 months to advance just 30 kilometers deep – albeit admittedly the last 3 months of that were spent storming the town of al-Bab which was the ultimate goal of the offensive.
Turkish military has clashed with Syrian Kurdish militias before, as have Turkey-backed Syrian fighters. In fact, at one point Syrian Islamist fighters in Turkish employ exchanged gunfire with US troops backing the Kurdish YPG militia. But those exchanges were not real battles, but skirmishes and probing attacks at most. The Turkish offensive on Afrin is the start of a whole new war, one which Turkey launches against objections of Russia and the US both.
Americans have no presence in Afrin. Elsewhere the US gradually came to ignore Turkish objections over US-Kurdish ties so that its military has become heavily intertwined with the Kurdish YPG militia. The one concession to the Turks the US has made is that it has ignored the Afrin YPG completely, as the enclave never bordered ISIS-held territory and was of no value in that fight.
Thus Americans have always given the impression that they're willing to offer Afrin as a sacrificial lamb for Erdogan but that is no longer possible. If the Americans are fine with handing over the Kurdish enclave to the Turks, the Kurdish militias are not. Once again the US most chose between its Syrian proxies or its fellow NATO member Turkey. If the US stands by its relationship with the YPG suffers, if it intervenes decisively behind the scenes to stop the offensive its relationship with Turkey will be ruined further.
It's a headache also for the Russians and the Syrians, doubtlessly they don't want the Turks to enlarge their occupation zone in northern Syria, especially as the Turks aren't showing sign of thinking of handing back those territories to Damascus any time soon. In fact since last year Russians have had 180 of their military police in Afrin to try to dissuade Erdogan from invading, but we can now say that gambit has failed.


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Mahabalipuram: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping continue their discussions on the 2nd day of Informal Summit, in Tamil Nadu's Mahabalipuram on Oct 12, 2019. (Photo: IANS)
The most important takeaway from the informal summit between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping at Mamallapuram, formerly Mahabalipuram — the second since Wuhan that happened in April 2018 — is that the two biggest nations with a deep civilizational legacy could successfully explore the areas of detente and cooperation independently of the third party influences. The scale of welcome accorded to the Chinese President reflected the cultural content of Indian hospitality that would not go unnoticed in terms of the message of willingness to work for a mutually beneficial relationship that it put out for the visiting dignitary.
What Wuhan had registered was an explicit sharing of this thought in spite of the Doklam episode and at the end of a year since, the notable outcome for India-China relations is that, notwithstanding the adverse impact of Sino-Pak alliance on them, the two countries can retrieve the positives that were still out there. In a nutshell, the two summits acknowledge that India and China were not 'adversaries' but two large economic powers open to a healthy competition in a multipolar world. The big picture is that China could no more afford to take India for granted, that international relations today primarily weighed in for peace and development and that 'checks and balances' were now recognized as a legitimate instrument for preventing 'military' conflicts in the post- Cold War era.
The demeanor of President Xi at the cultural reception organized for him suggested that he was preoccupied with the thought of dealing with what was substantive in India-China relationship for him, at a time when his country had challenges on multiple fronts. China needs time to build itself as the second super power through the economic route – even as it continues to simultaneously consolidate its military power to reach parity with the US in that sphere.
Speed breakers that the Trump Presidency has created for the unfettered advantage accruing to China in its trade with the US in the past would lead President Xi Jinping to an effort to retrieve whatever trade benefit it could continue getting from the Indian market. A trade deficit of over $52 billion confronting India in relation to China should get Xi to realize that things would not be the same again and that a pragmatic approach to India-China trade relations alone could serve the interests of the two countries. Prime Minister Modi is adept at showing the pathway to shared progress to President Jinping in this area — he now knows Xi personally enough to make this process smooth. The outcome of the summit would be keenly awaited.
As far as the perennial issues around the LAC are concerned, Doklam tested India's political will not to tolerate any border encroachment or alteration of the existing dividers. China has brought in PLA to directly oversee the LAC and India has responded by pushing the army closer to the borders with China but both sides seemed to be in favor of maintaining peace and promoting confidence-building measures there. The sino-pak military alliance is a regional leverage that China no doubt thinks it can invoke against India but it is apparently more about the CPEC opening up new ways for China's economic expansion- including an outlet into the Arabian Sea.
On the issue of terrorism, China knows it cannot uphold Pakistan beyond a point — its response on Kashmir after the abrogation by India of Articles 370 and 35A has essentially been to advocate bilateral talks on the issue between India and Pakistan — this is a low-cost instrument for China to keep Pakistan humored. China would have sensed that the conversion of Ladakh into a Union Territory gave the Centre here a more direct control on this sensitive territory on the Chinese border. Moreover, the fear of radicalization of its Muslim minority has come alive for the Chinese leadership – its historical memory of how in the Cold War era Pakistan helped the US-led West to encourage Islamic militancy in Xinjiang and Uzbekistan bordering Afghanistan would not have been completely erased.
The possibility of a synchronised mischief by China and Pakistan on our borders has been factored in by our Defence forces – even though such an eventuality still remains only in the background. India has activated its participation in QUAD but the focus of this US-Japan- India-Australia convergence is so far on maintenance of 'rules based regime' in the Indo-Pacific maritime zone. President Xi must have got the message that India would be willing to halt any designs of the Chinese in the Indian Ocean further up north through this steadily developing multi lateral — but as yet non-military — partnership. Since Wuhan, India's Look East policy has strengthened our friendship with many countries in the East and this also works to India's advantage.
The statements made by the two sides at this summit would be analyzed by strategic experts but given the content and the unambiguous language of both, certain deductions can be made upfront. Surely, China has taken cognizance of the fact that in the Modi regime India is now a major voice in the world community on matters of global security and economic relations and that Prime Minister Modi would not be found wanting in responding to any positive overtures from Xi Jinping. India's willingness to work for a 'balance of power' to ensure global peace has been in evidence in the recent period. All of this provided a backdrop to the Mamallapuram summit that favored the pursuit of understanding and de-emphasized friction.
Prime Minister Modi declared that 'Chennai Connect' had opened a new chapter in India-China cooperation and President Xi Jinping on his part disclosed that in the multiple conversations he had had with the Indian leader, there was heart-to-heart exchange of views – like among friends – on 'bilateral matters'. As expected trade relations were on top of the agenda – an indication of this coming from the announcement by India that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman would, along with the Chinese Vice Premier, lead the initiative to develop a mechanism for carrying trade, investment and services forward.
President Xi elaborated further on the tenor of discussions by saying that the two nations now enjoyed a 'deeper strategic communication and effective practical cooperation'. It is clear that Xi Jinping did not get involved with Kashmir – one would like to believe that the Indian delegation, while broaching the subject of terrorism, succeeded in waking up the Chinese to the reality that this new faith-based global terror invoking Jehad, which was emanating from Pakistan, was dangerous for both India and China in the long run. In a nutshell, the second informal summit between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping is an advance over Wuhan and has established a bilateral grid that suits the security and economic strategy of India. There is no doubt that the Prime Minister will handle it well to India's long-term advantage.
(The writer is a former Director Intelligence Bureau. The views expressed are personal)
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1997-09-22 Assigned to ZIMMON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION reassignment ZIMMON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: ZIMMON, DAVID S.
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An apparatus and method for performing a medical procedure comprising an elongated member having an aperture extending longitudinally therethrough. The member has a proximal and an opposite distal end. An actuator is positioned within the aperture and has a proximal end and an opposite distal end. Biopsy means are connected to the distal end of the actuator for cutting and collecting biopsy specimens. Either the elongated member or the distal tip is modified to receive the cut specimens in the order of acquisition. After serial acquisition, the holding segment is separated from the remainder and closed by a cap to form a processing cassette. The cassette holds the specimens in the order of acquisition through fixation and processing to be opened for slicing or analysis.
This invention relates generally to a method and devices for the serial collection, storage, and processing of biopsy specimens for microscopic, chemical, or other types of examination. In particular, the invention relates to biopsy sampling or removing tissue from any remote luminal structure within a patient, and storing the tissue within the removal apparatus in the order sampled through analysis or processing.
It is often necessary to obtain tissue samples for examination from deep within luminal structures. These samples can only be retrieved by catheterization methods using endoscopic or fluoroscopic control, or by blind palpation. The biopsy devices used for these techniques remove 1 to 4 specimens that are retrieved by removing the biopsy instrument from the patient, and placing the specimen in a container of fixative solution labeled with the biopsy site and patient identification. The biopsies obtained in each pass are processed in a batch, since the minute pieces cannot be easily separated. Consequently, biopsies from different sites must be handled separately, thus requiring considerable effort and expense. The need to perform multiple biopsy passes because of the limited storage capacity of the biopsy instrument and the need to identify the sites of biopsy origin prolongs the procedure and may even cause it to fail, if the position of the biopsy instrument cannot be reacquired.
During this complex handling process, small specimens may be lost or damaged. At each stage of handling, the staff is exposed to possible infection from the biopsies particularly true when the unfixed specimen is removed from the sharp biopsy instrument before it is fixed. The staff is also exposed to solvent vapor from the fixative at each transfer step of processing. The solvents may be allergenic or carcinogenic. This tedious, labor intensive process is also expensive both in terms of time and laboratory space.
Although the prior art has made biopsy deep within the patient possible, the need for additional improvements remains. The present invention satisfies this need in a novel and unobvious way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for the serial collection and storage of biopsies through the processing steps that overcomes the drawbacks of the prior art and allows the biopsies to be collected, stored and processed without excessive handling.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a method for the serial collection, storage and processing of biopsies that is simple to use and manufacture.
One embodiment of the present invention modifies biopsy instruments for capture of each biopsy serially and provides for storage within the biopsy instrument. The storage chamber is designed to be removed from the instrument shaft and closed to serve as a processing cassette without specimen handling, until the specimens are sliced for mounting and staining prior to microscopy, or analyzed chemically.
A device for obtaining tissue samples from remote locations within a patient according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises an elongated flexible member having a lumen, a distal end, and a proximal end. A cutting means is located near the distal end of the elongated member. The cutting means is actuated to cut tissue when the elongated member is moved toward the head or when the cutting distal head is moved toward the flexible member. An example of this type of device is shown in PCT Application WO 93/04630, the disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference. The present invention modifies this device by providing storage means within the device and closing means for creating a cassette for storing and processing the specimens in the order they were collected. The cutting head serves as a packing means to force each biopsy into the shaft for storage.
Alternatively, the elongated member may serve as the cutting means and the head an anvil. Also, the biopsies can be stored within the head. The head is perforated to allow for fluid flow through the head. Each specimen is forced into the perforated head storage chamber by injecting fluid through the shaft before the cutting means and anvil are opened for the subsequent biopsy. The storage head containing the specimens is cut from the actuating shaft and closed with a perforated cap. The biopsy device head has now become a processing cassette with serial biopsies enclosed in order of acquisition, and ready for fixation and processing without further handling. In addition, the head can have a perforated flap that can be peeled open to allow for easy removal of the biopsy specimens. The cutting means can thus be located either on the head or the elongated member, and storage of the specimens can take place in either the head or the elongated member. Thus, four different permutations of this device are possible.
In a second embodiment of the present invention, a biopsy device for obtaining tissue samples from remote locations within a patient according to the invention comprises a flexible plastic catheter or shaft with one or two side lumens and a relatively large central lumen. The distal end contains a remotely controllable folded spring jaw biopsy device within the central lumen that is stabilized by metal or plastic guides. The guides enlarge the lumen and ensure that there is sufficient room to store the collected biopsy specimens as compared to a solid plastic extrusion with only a slot as a guide. It also enables the use of a simple extruded catheter for the device. In this embodiment, the folded spring jaw is extended proximally to form a chamber within the catheter to receive the specimens.
The junction of the chamber and the folded spring jaw is angulated to increase the distance between the jaws when they are extended and also to form a constriction at the distal most extent of the chamber. The actuator cable is biased to limit extension of the folded spring to the angled jaws distal to the constriction. The constriction and holding chamber remain within the catheter and prevent loss of the stored biopsies. As the spring jaws are drawn into the catheter with each new biopsy, the constriction is reduced, allowing the latest specimen to be aspirated into the holding chamber. The side lumen(s) have open slits to carry suction from the proximal end of the catheter to draw the specimens into the chamber after each biopsy.
The distal end of the apparatus is capped after withdrawal. The catheter is cut at a marked site proximal to the specimen holding chamber and capped with a second cap. Perforated caps allow fixation and processing of the specimens within the chamber. The catheter has thus become a processing cassette with the serial specimens enclosed in order of acquisition and ready for fixation and processing without further handling. Plastic or metal guides are preferably inserted into the central lumen of the catheter to support and prevent twisting of the folded spring and to create a chamber for the storage of biopsies.
FIG. 5D is a sectional view of the device shown in FIG. 5C showing the perforated caps in place after removing the shaft and jaws.
For the purposes of promoting an understanding of the principles of the invention, reference will now be made to the embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used to describe same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the invention is thereby intended, such alterations and further modifications in the illustrated device, and such further applications of the principles of the invention as illustrated therein being contemplated as would normally occur to one skilled in the area to which the invention relates.
With reference to FIGS. 1 through 4, there is illustrated several embodiments of the device according to the invention, which permits serial specimen collection, storage and processing. As shown in FIG. 1A, a biopsy obtained with this method is cut as blade 12 approaches anvil 13. Therefore, the distance between blade 12 and anvil 13, which is determined by the distance moved by actuator cable 15, is the major determinant of specimen length. Biopsy width is constrained by actuator cable 15 to approximately 50% of the diameter of cutting blade 12. Within areas of narrowing, specimen 11 is forced into the cutting chamber and cannot escape except into either the receptacle head, shown in FIGS. 3A-3B and 4A-4C, or shaft shown in FIGS. 1A, 1B and 2. These external constraints, combined with a conical packing shaft 18 within the head 20, provide the force to align, pack, and maintain specimen position as well as prevent loss of the specimen 11 when shaft 10 and head 20 are drawn apart for additional biopsies.
When the device according to the invention is used within an unconstrained space, the force to align, pack, and store the biopsies must be provided by the instrument itself. In this circumstance, biopsy size is important and a minimum specimen length of twice the blade diameter is assumed to align specimens within the storage space and prevent mixing. This is provided by calibrating shaft movement to that minimum distance. Packing of specimen 11 into shaft 10 and prevention of loss is accomplished by conical packing shaft 18 attached to cutting head 20 that extends into shaft 10 so that packed specimens are constrained.
FIGS. 1A, 1B and 2 show examples of the device according to the invention wherein storage of biopsy specimens 11 is in the shaft 10. Shaft storage has the advantage of great storage space in relation to the length of the cutting head without altering operating characteristics of the biopsy device. This option permits retrieval of many samples and a large specimen volume using device diameters of 5F or smaller where head length is limited to 3 times shaft diameter by the need to traverse narrow tortuous pathways. As shown in FIG. 1A, the cutting blade is on the head, and collection of specimens 11 proceeds by bringing blade 12 down onto anvil 13 by tension on wire 15. Blade 12 cuts specimen 11, which is then drawn down into shaft 10. Packing head 18 serves to compress specimens 11 further into shaft 10. Wire 15 also compresses specimens 11 within shaft 10.
A stopper 40 is placed within shaft 10 and connected to wire 15. Stopper 40 is preferably perforated and serves as an end point to the storage chamber formed by shaft 10.
After the desired number of specimens 11 has been collected and the instrument removed from the patient's body, head 20 is removed from shaft 10. Wire 15 is cut and led through a perforated cap 30, which is placed over the open end of shaft 10, as shown in FIG. 1B. Wire 15 is then pulled from cap 30 to raise stopper 40 and compress specimens 11 within shaft 10.
FIGS. 1A and 1B show a perforated stopper 40 that limits the movement of specimens 11 up shaft 10, determines the length of the storage space, number of biopsies that can be stored, and provides a proximal cap after shaft 10 is cut. The distal perforated cap 30 is also shown in FIG. 1B. The application of both stopper 40 and cap 30 provides a sealed storage cassette for specimens 11.
If the initial distance between stopper 40 and the end of shaft 10 where cap 30 is placed is known, the length of the shaft containing the biopsies to be processed can be determined by measuring the length of wire outside the cap after the wire is pulled through the cap. Shaft 10 can then be cut to this length to create a compact processing cassette for specimens 11. The perforated cap 30 and stopper 40 allow for exposure of specimens 11 during storage and processing.
In an alternative embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the cutting blade 22 is on shaft 10 instead of in head 20. Cutting blade 22 cuts specimens 11 when head 20 containing anvil 23 is brought down onto blade 22. Packing head 18 compresses specimens 11 into shaft 10 for storage. Placement of cap 30 and further compression of specimens 11 proceeds as with the device shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, above.
In an alternative embodiment, specimens 11 can be stored in head 50, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. FIGS. 3A and 3B show the device according to the invention, wherein head 50 is hollow and serves as the storage chamber for specimens 11. Similar to the device shown in FIG. 1A, cutting blade 12 is located on head 50, and serves to cut specimens 11 when it is brought down onto anvil 13.
As shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, cutting head 50 is a cylindrical space made of metal or plastic with a proximal facing blade. If the head is hollow, cut specimens may be stored within this space. The headspace has a direct relationship to its diameter, length and the size of the sample. The head diameter must conform to the shaft diameter. Head length is limited by the rigidity produced by head length that impedes maneuverability of the device. Head length must be limited, generally, to between 2 and 4 times shaft diameter to allow easy passage of the device around curves in the endoscope or passage that is to be traversed. The possibility of special cases remains.
As the biopsy is proportional to shaft and head diameter, and the headspace must be limited to align the sequential stored biopsies. In one preferred embodiment, the catheter is 7 French or 2.3 mm in diameter, with a head length twice the diameter of the shaft of 4.6 mm, will only store 5-6 specimens. Increasing head length to 3 times diameter or 7 mm increases storage capacity to 10. Further increases in head length to 4, 5, or 6 times the shaft diameter increases biopsy storage capacity to 13, 16, and 20 specimens, respectively, but at the cost of a longer rigid tip that progressively prevents accurate positioning and limits maneuverability.
Head 50 is preferably perforated to allow for packing of the specimens 11 within head 50 by injecting fluid through shaft 10 into head 50. The fluid pressure causes specimens 11 to be compressed into head 50 and the fluid can then escape through perforated head 50.
When the desired number of specimens 11 have been collected in head 50, wire 15 is cut and cap 30 is placed over the opening in head 50 to enclose specimens 11. Cap 30 is preferably perforated to allow the addition of fixative to specimens 11. Alternatively, a tube of plastic screen can be placed within the hollow head 50, which is then closed on either end with a packing disc and removal plate. The screen can then be removed from head 50 for further processing and storage of specimens 11.
In another alternative embodiment, the blade 35 can be located on shaft 10 and the specimens 11 stored in head 50, as shown in FIG. 4a. After collection of specimens 11, wire 15 is cut and cap 30 is placed over the open end of head 50, as shown in FIG. 4B.
As shown in FIG. 4B, head 50 preferably has a perforated flap 45 formed therein, which can be peeled open to release specimens 11 from head 50 for further processing, as shown in FIG. 4C.
In yet another alternative embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 5A-5D, the device retrieves specimens 11 through a spring-based biopsy cutting tool 60. Cutting tool 60 is arranged inside a catheter 62, which has two small side lumens 63 and a large central lumen 64. Central lumen 64 has a plurality of jaw guides 70 which act as a specimen holding chamber, as shown in FIGS. 5C and 5D. Jaw guides 70 could be made of any suitable material such as metal or plastic. Cutting tool 60 has two spring-based jaws equipped with two open-faced cutting blades 65 on each jaw of cutting tool 60.
Cutting tool 60 is deployed to cut and retrieve biopsy specimens, and to bring the specimens inside catheter 62 for storage. The movement of tool 60 is controlled by actuator wire 66, which, when pulled, causes the tool 60 to retract and blades 65 to come together to cut specimen 11. Further pulling on wire 66 causes tool 60 to retract inside lumen 64 and pull specimen 11 inside as well. After specimen 11 is deposited inside lumen 64, tool 60 can then be deployed to cut and retrieve additional specimens.
When the desired number of specimens 11 have been collected, tool 60 is removed from catheter 62 and the distal end is capped with a perforated cap 69, as shown in FIG. 5D. Perforated cap 69 allows for addition of fixative to the specimens during storage in lumen 64. Catheter 62 is then cut at a specified site at its proximal end and capped with a cap 71, thus creating a processing cassette whereby the specimens can be processed in order of acquisition without the preparation of additional logs or excessive handling of specimens 11.
While several embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it is to be understood that many changes and modifications may be made thereunto without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
a cap positionable over said separable portion when said portion is removed from the flexible member, said cap closing said portion for storage and processing of biopsy specimens collected by the biopsy means in the order of collection.
a cutting surface attached to the other of said catheter and said head, said cutting means being actuated to cut tissue when said head is moved with respect to said catheter by said actuator.
3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the head is hollow and the cap closes the head.
4. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the head has a length of between 2 and 4 times the diameter of the elongated member.
5. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the cap seals the catheter for storage and processing of biopsy specimens within the catheter.
6. An apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a conical packing shaft on the head and extending into the catheter for packing, aligning and maintaining the position of collected biopsy specimens within the catheter.
7. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the actuator comprises a wire, and further comprising a stopper attached to the wire at a predetermined position, to define a storage compartment between the cap and the stopper for the biopsy specimens.
8. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the wire is pulled out from the cap and fixed to compress the specimens within the apparatus.
9. An apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the catheter is cut proximal to the stopper to form a capsule for the collected specimens.
10. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the head is perforated to allow packing of biopsy specimens by fluid injected through the catheter and permeation by fluid for fixation and processing.
11. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the head has a perforated flap that is peelably opened for removal of the biopsy specimens.
12. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cap is perforated.
13. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the biopsy means comprises a spring jaw having a cutting tool, said spring jaw being remotely deployable from said flexible member, and an internal jaw guide in the distal end of said member, said jaw guide contacting along said jaw for controlling the precise movement of said jaw and defining a cavity within said member for receiving a substantial portion of said jaw.
14. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the member is a catheter and the spring jaw and jaw guide are elongated to form a chamber within the catheter for serial acquisition, storage and processing of specimens within the chamber.
15. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the catheter is a plastic extrusion having a large central lumen and two smaller side lumens.
16. An apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the side lumens are connected via slits to the central lumen and act as a suction means to draw the biopsy specimens into the chamber in order of acquisition after each biopsy.
17. An apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the cap is perforated, and the catheter is cut proximal to the chamber and closed with the cap.
18. An apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising a second cap for closing the distal end of the flexible member after collection of biopsies.
closing said elongated member with at least one perforated cap, to create a processing cassette for said specimens.
20. The method according to claim 19, further comprising compressing said specimens within said elongated hollow member and cutting said member to create a compact processing cassette.
closing the hollow head with a perforated cap to create a processing cassette for said specimens.
ES2251366T3 (en) 2006-05-01 Endoscopic forceps for multiple samples.


I'm absolutely in love with jewellery. Maybe even more in love with jewellery than with makeup!
I know, that's blasphemous! LOL but jewellery is so pretty and you don't have to spend ages getting ready to make them look pretty. It takes about 10 minutes to choose the right earrings/rings/necklace/etc and your outfit is 10x prettier.
And OMG I'm looooving all those cute pieces of jewellery that you can find everywhere: rings with bunnies in hats; rings that are beautiful lips; necklaces that have a bird in a bird cage pendant? Absolutely to die for!!
And may I just show you the bag below? How cool is that? Not that I would buy it, but it's still a wicked idea!
The strawberry earrings are so cute!!!
Tis now my fulltime job so always looking to get some feedback!
Ooh in that case I'd love to know what you think of my handmade jewellery? :) <a href="http://www.rafflesbizarre.co.ukwww.rafflesbizarre.co.uk
Tis now my fulltime job so always looking to get some feedback!


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No specific protection against inter-turn faults is needed for most motors except very big motors. Embedded temperature detectors may be relied upon to provide protection against inter-turn faults.


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By Joe Cipriano|2017-07-09T15:54:49-07:00March 4th, 2011|
Thanks to Paul McLane, U.S. editor in chief of Radio World for the great story on my Wheel of Fortune on-air audition. This is a reprint from Radio World, click here to see the original story.
Joe Cipriano Takes a Crack at Fortune's 'Wheel'
Paul McLane is U.S. editor in chief of Radio World.
Voice talent Joe Cipriano, familiar voice of many radio stations, and heard regularly on CBS, Fox and TV shows like "Deal or No Deal" (not to mention promos for another program much in the news lately, "Two and a Half Men") says he's been invited to audition on-air for the chance to become the new announcer for "Wheel of Fortune."
He's drumming up interest and letting radio stations know he's available for phoner interviews about "what it's like behind-the-scenes at 'Wheel of Fortune' and my experiences working as a television announcer in Hollywood."
He recently taped two weeks of the program. Radio World profiled Joe some years ago and thought this sounded interesting; so we dropped him an e-mail to ask a little more about it.
Cipriano, a former radio air personality in L.A. and Washington, said it must be difficult for the producers of Wheel to find a new voice to replace the late Charlie O'Donnel, who died last fall. "Charlie O'Donnel was legendary and the 'sound' of the show for the past 20 years," he said.
In preparing for the guest slot, Cipriano did his best to immerse himself in the show and its history. He relates the story of how show creator Merv Griffin wanted a new guy named Sajak to take over as host in the early 1980s. When the network said no, Joe relates, "Merv believed Pat Sajak was the future of Wheel and he said, 'If you don't want Pat, you don't get Wheel of Fortune,' and he shut down the show."
Cipriano said several announcers are trying out for the permanent Wheel gig.
"When I was brought in to do two weeks on Wheel, the producers and director said, we don't want you to 'do Charlie O'Donnel,' and I took that to heart. … Charlie was fun, he was a funny guy, not just a big voice, and that's hard to impersonate.
"My intention while auditioning was always to have fun and be me, but to honor the show 'Wheel of Fortune,' because it is a legend. People tune in to 'Wheel of Fortune' to play a great game, we all play along at home, they want to see Pat Sajak because he's funny, he's sharp-witted … They love the relationship between him and Vanna and they love Vanna's personality and the beauty of the gowns."
Griffin "always updated the show and changed with the times," Cipriano said. "My intention as the announcer of Wheel of Fortune was to make it sound like 2011 … 2012 … 2013 and beyond."
Go get 'em Joe!
Originally Posted on Radio World Blog (http://www.rwonline.com/blog.aspx?id=114784&blogid=320)by Paul McLane at 03/03/2011 02:08:06 PM


Olivia Pope, is conniving, cutthroat and charming, a crisis manager protecting Washington's top officials on the TV drama "Scandal."
What many people do not know is that Olivia Pope is from the Bronx. Well, at least the actress who portrays her is.
"I am, you know, I am so proud to be a girl of the Bronx," Kerry Washington said. "I think being from the Bronx is a big part of who I am and how I walk in the world."
Washington stands tall as an actress, winning Emmy and golden globe nominations for her portrayal of Olivia Pope.
With the series ending after seven seasons, Washington was honored at Lehman College's 50th annual leadership dinner, receiving the award for artistic achievement.
"I think I owe a lot of my ambition and work ethic and determination to the fact that I was raised by two hard-working parents in the Bronx," she said.
Washington grew up on Pugsley Avenue in the Castle Hill area. As a girl, she spent time on Lehman's Bronx campus, where her mom was a professor.
She went on to graduate Phil Beta Kappa from George Washington University.
At the gala, she encouraged students to reach for the stars through academics.
"That's very important to me, that everybody, whether you are from the Bronx or from other some other community, that you have access to quality education," Washington said.
"Know that is possible. Just go for it. Know that it is possible," she added. "There are places where you can get the resources that you need to transform your life."
Being from the Bronx, or the BX, as many in the borough call it, the Hollywood star doesn't shy away from her roots.
"I don't know about my Xs, I don't know if I've ever thrown my Xs, but I am very, very proud," Washington said.
Her parents are very, very proud as well of a daughter who they also consider an advocate.
"The most important thing is making a difference in not only your life but the lives of other people, and that is what she does," said Valerie Washington, Kerry's mother. "She embraces people, she supports them, she has a generous heart, and she wants people to get the best that they can get."
"She is just a fantastic young lady, and we are so proud to have her as our child," said Earl Washington, Kerry's father.
There is only one episode of "Scandal" left, and I thought I could get her parents to spill the beans on what's going to happen in the series finale.
She has never told us anything in seven years," Kerry's mother said.
"Seven years, that is the truth," Kerry's father said.
Of course, Washington's parents know not to cross Olivia Pope.


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AAMA Offers Updated Coatings Specs
The American Architectural Manufacturers Association has announced the publication of AAMA 907 "Voluntary Specification for Corrosion Resistant Coatings on Carbon Steel Components Used in Windows, Doors and Skylights."
The specification describes requirements for corrosion resistant coatings on carbon steels used for hardware components in window, door and skylight applications.
The specification is updated from the 2012 version and includes a new test report section along with a clarified scope, according to Jeff Dorsch (AmesburyTruth), chair of the AAMA 907 Task Group.
The specification covers steel hardware components in window, door and skylight applications.
"The AAMA 907 standard for acceptable coatings for mild steel components and assemblies was re-worked to become more performance based and less prescriptive," said Dorsch.
"In addition, specific references to cadmium plating were removed due to the material's inclusion on many of the green industry's red lists. A manufacturer can utilize any number of plating or material options as long as the results after neutral salt spray testing are in accordance with the 907-15 standard."
Moreover, the requirements in the standard are functional and not intended to address aesthetics. Due to the diversity of corrosive environments that windows and doors are exposed to, this specification does not imply a specific service life, according to the AAMA. Fasteners are also not included in the scope of the specification.
AAMA 907-15 is available for download by AAMA members at a cost of $15. Non-members may purchase the document for $45.
Tagged categories: AAMA; Carbon Steel; Certifications and standards; Corrosion; Doors; Good Technical Practice; North America; Windows