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Publication numberUS5059176 A
Publication typeGrant
Application numberUS 07/454,411
Publication date22 Oct 1991
Filing date21 Dec 1989
Priority date21 Dec 1989
Fee statusLapsed
Publication number07454411, 454411, US 5059176 A, US 5059176A, US-A-5059176, US5059176 A, US5059176A
InventorsR. Edward Winters
Original AssigneeWinters R Edward
Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Vascular system steerable guidewire with inflatable balloon
US 5059176 A
A dilatation steerable guidewire for use in the vascular system having an inflatable balloon at the distal end and a bi-directional fluid pressure actuated ball valve forward of the balloon position. The guidewire construction provides torque and direction for manipulating the guidewire through the anatomy while the valve regulates fluid emission from the tip of the guidewire for visualization or into the balloon for inflation and deflation and is originated by fluid pressure.
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What is claimed is:
1. For use in the vascular system a steerable guidewire/balloon apparatus comprising in combination:
a. a length of flexible tubing having proximal and distal ends and interior and exterior walls and providing torsional, axial and radial rigidity;
b. an inflatable balloon disposed about the exterior circumference of said tubing at said distal end, said tubing having a passageway between said interior and exterior walls for admitting fluid to said balloon;
c. a flexible axially moveable core member disposed within and along the length of said tubing; and
d. valve means disposed within said tubing forward of said passageway comprising a valve seat attached to said tubing and a ball valve member slidably mounted on said moveable core for containing said fluid within said tubing and selectively directing said fluid into said passageway and said balloon by sealing said valve means by fluid pressure.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said valve seat is positioned to be sealed by said ball valve member by moving said member toward said distal end of said tubing by fluid pressure.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said valve seat is positioned to be sealed by said ball valve member by moving said member toward the proximal end of said tubing by fluid extraction.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said tubing has an exterior circumferential recess and said balloon is disposed in said recess.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 further including:
a. a helically wound spring attached to said distal end of said tubing, said spring terminating in a smooth rounded tip; and
b. a spring stiffening member attached to said core member adapted to fit within said spring upon moving said core toward said distal end of said spring.
6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein said spring and said spring stiffening member are mutually tapered toward said distal end.

1. Field of the Invention

The invention resides in the field of guidewires for the insertion of catheters and other devices for the diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease.

Guidewires are small diameter devices which provide torsional, axial and radial rigidity and are utilized to insert catheters into the anatomy and to guide catheters into areas of vascular anatomy. Guidewires are generally constructed of materials such as stainless steel rod or tube stock and have a coiled metallic spring around their entirety or only at the distal end. The guidewire body, be it tube or rod, imparts torque and axial strength while the spring is soft to be atraumatic to the vascular tissue. Guidewires can vary in size of outer diameter from a few thousandths to 0.080 inches and are designated by diameter in thousandths of an inch. Steerable guidewires generally range in size of outer diameter from 0.010 inches to 0.020 inches.

Catheters are larger than guidewires and may be single or multiple lumen tubes of somewhat different construction and materials. They are designated by French size and vary from a few French to as large as 50 French for bypass surgery. One French equals 0.013 inches. Standard diagnostic catheters are generally made of a soft material such as plastic and are used for a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Diagnostic catheters are sometimes wire braid reinforced or of coaxial construction with the inner tube having more rigidity than the outer tube to provide some control to the catheter.

Steerable PTCA catheters vary from as small as 3 French to as large as 5 French. The smallest steerable catheter would be approximately 0.041 inches. Steerable catheters, unlike diagnostic catheters, do not generally have any reinforce-ment to provide torque characteristics. As such steerable catheters are guided into the vasculature and to the area of interest in the vasculature over steerable guidewires which provide torque and rigidity.

2. Description of the Prior Art

Prior to therapeutic catheters for the treatment of vascular disease, guidewires were used to straighten and safely guide diagnostic catheters into parts of the vascular system where radiopaque dyes were injected to illuminate the vasculature under fluoroscopy for studying the anatomy prior to therapy. With the advent of balloon and laser catheters for unblocking obstructions in small diameter vessels, such as the coronary arteries, came the development of highly steerable guidewires of small diameter for accessing these lesions. The necessity for highly steerable guidewire devices came as a result of the tortuous pathways encountered in the coronary vasculature. These steerable guidewires additionally were designed with very soft atraumatic tips to avoid injury to the vasculature. Typically for a balloon dilatation procedure, a small diameter steerable guidewire is placed within a small diameter multiple lumen balloon catheter and the two advanced into the vasculature through a larger diameter guide catheter which has been placed from a remote vascular entry point. The guide catheter is similar to diagnostic angiographic catheters and is placed over a large diameter guidewire which straightens the guide catheter for entry into a remote area of the vasculature and facilitates manipulation of the catheter. At this point the large diameter guidewire is removed and the preformed tip of the guide catheter enables the catheter which has some torque capability to be positioned at the site of entry of the therapeutic catheter into the particular area of the vasculature. The guide catheter, unlike a diagnostic catheter, is stiffer and designed with the added support capability to facilitate advancement of the steerable guidewire and balloon catheter assembly into the remote narrow vasculature. The guide catheter for coronary dilatation procedures would be advanced to the coronary ostium. From this point the dilatation catheter and steerable guidewire assembly, which have been advanced through the guide catheter as an assembly, would exit from the guide catheter into the coronary vasculature. The steerable guidewire would be advanced several centimeters out the tip of the balloon catheter. Because of the atraumatic tip and torque characteristics the steerable guidewire would be used to access the area of obstruction. The balloon catheter would then be advanced over the steerable guidewire across the lesion. The balloon on the catheter would then be inflated to accomplish the therapy. However, the steerable guidewire therefore would merely support the balloon catheter in reaching and crossing the lesion. With many steerable systems pressure could be measured from the tip of the balloon catheter in conjunction with a pressure from the guide catheter to provide a gradient. The amount of gradient pre and post dilatation could be used as a measure of success. With these steerable systems, the therapeutic catheter could then be pulled back on the steerable guidewire out of the narrowing to study the results by dye injection. The steerable guidewire remains across the lesion in order to re-cross the lesion if necessary for additional therapy or should there be closure of the vessel in order to re-open the vessel. Alternatively, the therapeutic catheter can remain across the lesion and the steerable guidewire removed to be exchanged for another steerable guidewire of varying characteristics should this be deemed necessary.

The use of these systems is well known and a variety of systems comprising various steerable guidewires and various balloon catheters in combination has been developed. The variety of steerable guidewires and catheters for facilitating the procedure is extensive.

For example, in the area of guidewires, U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,545,390, Leary, and 3,789,841, Antoshkiw, both show distal tips formed of helically wound springs surrounding fixed tapered cores. U.S. Pat. No. 3,631,848, Muller, describes an axially movable distal tip extension tube of relatively short length.

A coil tip with tapered face edges which will curve toward the taper when pulled upon by an internal control wire is disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,452,740, and 3,452,742, both to Muller. U.S. Pat. No. 4,650,467, Bonello shows a similar arrangement for inclining the tip by retraction of a control wire affixed thereto.

Additionally, U.S. Pat. No. 3,528,406, Jeckel et al. teaches the use of a fixed core wire having a reduced diameter in the spring tip portion of the wire. U.S. Pat. No. 3,625,200, Muller, discloses a curvable tip comprising solid cylindrical links engaging each other with ball and socket joints each of which is manipulatable by a fine core wire. Finally, U.S. Pat. No. 4,573,470, Samson shows a curved tip which is rotated in its entirety by rotating a core wire at the control handle.

The aforementioned guidewire designs and improvements were limited to providing additional control characteristics to steerable guidewires to facilitate catheter placement.

In the area of balloon catheters for dilatation or compression of plaque, U.S. Pat. 4,323,071 discloses such a catheter in which two concentric tubes are employed, the inner tube adapted to fit over a separate steerable guidewire. The distal end of the outer tube is sealed to contain the fluid. Visualization of the anatomy by fluoroscopy may be accomplished ahead of the catheter and guidewire by infusion of dye through the central tube around the steerable guidewire and out the distal tip of the catheter.

An alternative system is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,582,181, Samson et al. in which a balloon is similarly formed in a catheter outer tube having a separate guidewire extending therethrough and inflation fluid is delivered through a tube disposed side by side with the guidewire. In this system the guidewire is moveable within the catheter axially but the distal end is larger than the catheter tube through which it passes and as such may not be removed for guidewire exchange or may not be left in place while the catheter is removed for catheter exchange as is typical in standard steerable catheter and guidewire systems. Fluid may be infused in this system around the guidewire and out the distal tip of the catheter for dye tracing. The smaller wire permits a lower profile catheter system but obviates wire exchange.

Finally in U.S. Pat. No. 4,573,470, Samson et al. describes a Low-Profile Steerable Intraoperative Balloon Dilatation Catheter system wherein the catheter and the guidewire are bonded together to form a liquid-tight seal at the distal end of the catheter. The guidewire and balloon are manipulated as a unit with the guidewire fixed relative to the catheter to prohibit axial movement of the guidewire within the balloon catheter but enabling the guidewire to provide torque to the balloon catheter as an integral unit. In this system fluid is contained solely within the catheter.

The progression of developments in the area of steerable guidewire/catheter systems has enabled the access of smaller more tortuous vessels through the reduction of the overall outside diameter (profile) of the catheter/guidewire systems. In doing so the ability to provide distal dye injections, catheter exchanges and guidewire exchanges has been lost in some of these designs.

The present invention may be summarized as a vascular system dilatation steerable guidewire/balloon having an inflatable balloon disposed about the circumference of the distal end. The invention eliminates the usual catheter and guidewire combination entirely and incorporates the catheter features into the novel guidewire.

Fluid under appropriate pressure for inflating the balloon is introduced into the proximal end of the guidewire around a moveable but non-removeable core wire. Valves composed of valve seats formed from the guidewire walls distal to the balloon and a moveable ball valve member riding on a moveable core within the guidewire directs fluid into and out of the balloon through passageways in the guidewire walls under the balloon. Alternatively, the fluid is allowed to escape through the tip of the guidewire spring into the vascular system to carry out dye tracings in order to view the anatomy while guiding the device.

Additionally, a core member provides a means for controlling the distal coiled spring tip of the guidewire to dynamically change the guidewire characteristics in vivo. Thus, and as will be further seen from the disclosure below, the structure of the invention provides a multiplicity of features which have heretofore not been available in a steerable guidewire configuration.

The current invention provides desirable guidance/torque characteristics of steerable guidewires with the therapeutic capabilities of the balloon catheter while retaining the reduced overall profile of the guidewire device. In this manner there is no loss of steerability or therapeutic function. The design allows for distal dye injections, catheter exchanges and guidewire exchanges. In addition the design allows for increased control of the guidewiare dynamics through the ability to vary the stiffness of the guidewire tip in-vivo.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the valve may be arranged to be sealed either by fluid pressure to provide forward motion of the ball valve member or backward motion by negative pressure through fluid withdrawal from the proximal end of the guidewire tube. Fluid pressure within the guidewire will accomplish forward valve closure and balloon inflation while fluid extraction from within the guidewire will accomplish closure of the rearwardly disposed seat by the ball valve member and will enable deflation of the balloon.

The stiffness of the coiled spring tip attached to the distal end of the guidewire tube is set by the choice of shape, coatings, materials, method of winding and diameters of the wire used to wind the coiled spring tip. The size, number and stiffness of the malleable safety wire(s) within the coiled spring tip determine the tip formability and contribute to the stiffness and torque of the coiled spring tip. Stiffness is also set by the shape and point of attachment of the inner distal connector tube within the coiled spring tip. The connector tube attaches the coiled spring tip to the body of the guidewire. The connector also provides the forward valve seat. Dynamic in-vivo control of tip stiffness is accomplished by advancement and retraction of the inner moveable core member with the attached distal stiffening member. The ball valve member rides on the moveable core member proximal to the distal stiffening member. The moveable core member forward motion, is controlled by advancing or retracting the proximal end of the moveable core member which exits from the proximal end of the guidewire tube. The inner moveable core member is of small diameter to allow fluid passage around the moveable core member from the proximal to distal end of the guidewire and, as such, does not provide additional frictional torque to the outer body of the guidewire, the guidwire thus functions as a standard steerable guidewire but with in-vivo variable tip stiffness.

To augment this capability, the balloon may be disposed in a recessed area of the guidewire wall such that the overall profile of the guidewire remains uniform; however this is not a requirement of the device wherein the balloon may be mounted on the exterior of the guidewire without a recessed area. This embodiment allows a conventional steerable balloon catheter to be placed over the guidewire as in a conventional steerable dilatation prodedure or for the exchange of a dilatation catheter or the exchange of the steerable guidewire/balloon invention for a conventional steerable guidewire during a procedure, thereby utilizing the device as a standard steerable guidewire.

The features and advantages of the invention will be more clearly understood from the description of the preferred embodiment and drawing which follow.

The Figure is a cross-sectional view of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Referring to the Figure a cross-sectional illustration of the steerable guidewire/balloon comprising the preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in which flexible tube 10 is composed of stainless steel (or other suitable guidewire material). Inner tube 12 may be coated with an outer lubricious surface 14 such as teflon. Within tube 10 is a moveable core 16. Helically wound spring tip 18 is attached to the distal end of tube 10 by connector 20. Tip 18 may be tapered as shown and is composed of stainless steel wire or other suitable radio dense material, such as platinum. Within spring tip 18 is safety wire 21 which is attached to the spring tip 18 and to connector 20 to prevent spring tip 18 from uncoiling. Stiffening member 22 is attached to, or an integral unit with core 16 and slidably fits within spring tip 18.

Recess 23 may be formed in tube 10 by, for example, cylindrical connector 24 and tube walls 26 and 28. Balloon 26 may be disposed in recess 23 and attached to connector 24 by any suitable adhesive. Metallic bands 32 may additionally be applied to further secure the balloon and provide bright radio opaque markers. Ports 34 and 36 in connector 24 communicate with space 38 formed between core 16 and wall 12 and allow fluid within space 38 to enter into or exit from recess 23 for balloon inflation and deflation.

Connector 24 has valve seat 40 formed on the end thereof forward of the position of the balloon. An additional valve seat 42 on connector 20 is positioned forward of seat 40.

Ball valve member 44 is slidably mounted on moveable core 16. When ball valve member 44 is in the appropriate contact position on either seat 40 or 42 it prevents fluid passage. Forward motion and seating of the ball valve member 44 is accomplished by fluid infusion and consequently fluid pressure within space 38. Rearward motion and seating of the ball valve member 44 is accomplished by fluid withdrawal and consequently negative fluid pressure within space 38.

As will now be seen the apparatus disclosed above functions in the previously described manner to direct fluid either into the balloon for inflation or if the valve seat is not engaged, as shown, past the valve and out the tip of tube 10 into spring tip 18 and out through the spring tip.

Further the ball valve will move to the rearward seat 42 when fluid is withdrawn from the proximal end of tube 10 to deflate the balloon.

It will also be seen that the steerable guidewire/balloon may operate independently of the fluid transfer function as a guidewire of varying tip stiffness by axial movement of the core member 16 and stiffening member 22 and consequently stiffening spring tip 18.

Additionally, when the balloon is optionally disposed in recess 23 as is shown, a catheter of larger diameter may be advanced over tube 10 in accordance with standard guidewire procedures and techniques as is practiced in the art. Likewise a suitable larger lumen balloon catheter may be advance over tube 10 when there is no recessed area.

Having fully described the configuration and method of use of the steerable guidewire/balloon comprising the invention, the scope of the patent is hereby defined by the following claims.

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International ClassificationA61F2/958, A61M25/00
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Winter Skills Clinic Information

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -Penn State softball will host a winter softball skills clinic Jan. 13, head coach Robin Petrini announced Tuesday. The clinic will be limited to 80 campers and will take place at the Penn State Multi-Sport Complex and Holuba Hall.

Camp information and registration may be found here.

The Penn State Softball Skills Clinic is designed for girls in grades 8-12. The clinic will give athletes an opportunity to improve their skills with the direction of the Penn State softball coaching staff including associate head coach Jen McIntyre and assistant coach Lisa Banse.

The first session, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Multi-Sport Facility, will include training for pitchers and catchers and is limited to 40 participants. The second session will focus on both offensive and defensive positional play and spans from 12:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. inside Holuba Hall.

The focus of the clinic will teach tactical aspects of softball with a competitive environment. Instruction of all positions will take place including a pitching and catching portion. Clinic participants are instructed to bring all necessary softball equipment (bats, helmets, glove and tennis shoes), while catchers should bring their own gear including shin guards, chest protectors and masks.

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There are dozens of reasons for people to take up the study of tai chi.

"I was fearful of losing flexibility and balance," said 73-year-old Dr. Joe Feldhaus of Eden.

"The back pain from an old injury was becoming intolerable," said Steve Haidinger of San Angelo, who went from practicing the ancient Chinese discipline to becoming a tai chi instructor.

The benefits reported by those who practice tai chi are numerous: a better balance of blood-sugar levels for diabetics, relief from arthritis or other chronic pain, improved balance and stamina, asthma relief, stress reduction, increased muscle strength and flexibility, an improved sense of well-being.

On Thursday, witnessed by about a dozen tai chi practitioners, Feldhaus successfully completed a rigorous evaluation to earn the blue sash, which is the second of four tai chi levels and indicative of an elevated skill and knowledge of the 24 basic postures and the program's history and principles.

Feldhaus, who maintains his medical practice in Eden, took up tai chi about 18 months ago after noting numerous references to it in medical journals.

He called Haidinger to learn more about the "soft martial arts form." He now drives to San Angelo once a week for classes and continues the program daily at home.

He has benefited enormously, he said, noting no physical deterioration whatsoever despite his age.

Both men have taken action to spread the practice. Haidinger has designed and taught sitting tai chi for those in wheelchairs and classes for seniors, and Feldhaus has introduced it to residents of the Eden Nursing home and as a relaxation method for nurses at the Eden hospital.

Haidinger said he is now free from the agonizing back pain that nearly put him in a wheelchair about half a dozen years ago.

A U.S. Air Force firefighter specialist who had served as fire chief at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Haidinger had been reassigned to a desk job in Korea. The inactivity caused his back to rebel, eventually threatening his ability to walk.

Then he discovered tai chi, and under tai chi-qi gong Master Choe learned pain management and muscle-strengthening methods.

After three months of regular practice, he could control the pain.

When he retired from the Air Force and returned to San Angelo, he focused on work, not tai chi.

Within six months, the pain was back.

In 2001, he found tai chi Master Joy Xu McCarthy in San Angelo and resumed his tai chi studies.

Now he helps others learn the techniques that benefited him so dramatically.

Tai chi is self-paced, he noted, and non-competitive. It can be done in a small space, alone or in groups, and needs no special clothing or equipment.

"Because it is slow and gentle, it has virtually no negative side effects," he said, "but learning proper body position and breathing are critical, so study under an instructor is preferable to just buying a book or a videotape."

In addition to regular classes, he conducts a free tai chi practice hour each Thursday morning and on the third Saturday of the month in River Plaza Park.

Tai chi practitioners from throughout the area will be joining him for World Tai Chi Day in Kirby Park on April 28.

Tai chi at a glance

  • A martial arts, exercise and meditation practice that originated in China hundreds of years ago.
  • Characterized by postures and movements that flow seamlessly into one another, resembling dance.
  • Shown to have beneficial health effects.
  • If practiced long enough under competent instruction, an effective method of self-defense.
  • Tai Chi Concho: 1404 S. Oakes St., (325) 212-2558.

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Nokia Lumia 900 Appears in First Images?

We have been waiting to catch a glimpse of the rumored Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone and it appears that the device that many have been waiting for has finally decided to show its face. A couple of days ago, Pocketnow posted images snagged from a Christmas card from one of Microsoft’s partners. That image depicts a phone that, oddly enough, doesn’t appear to be a phone that Nokia has released yet.

So what is it?

It appears that it’s the Nokia Ace aka Nokia Lumia 900, a device that should be heading to AT&T’s 4G LTE network in the weeks ahead. Oops. The image doesn’t reveal too much but it does give us a pretty good look at the unofficial device.

There are some other things to note as well.

Nokia Lumia 900

You can very clearly see the front-facing camera, something not found on the Lumia 800, and you can also see that the device has AT&T branding as well as a 4G logo in the upper left corner.

Lumia 900

And while we now have a clear image of what we think is the Nokia Lumia 900, it’s unclear as to when Nokia will be announcing it. Signs point to a possible launch at CES with a release pegged for March 18th, 2012.

Nokia 900

The Nokia Lumia 900 should be the second Windows Phone to hit the United States. The honor of first on shelves will be going to T-Mobile’s Nokia Lumia 710 which is already set for a launch on January 11th for the low price of $49 on-contract.

  1. BrianB13 says

    While the phone itself looks great and the rumored specs are fantastic, for me it is ruined by the fact that it is a Windows phone.  Can’t stand the Windows UI.  Plus it just doesn’t have near the apps iOS and Android have.  I guess there are those that like it.

    • havasu46 says

      Great, there’s plenty of us that will take the one you won’t get. At least the UI isn’t a legacy collection of meaningless icons and actually helps in integrating apps with functions. As for apps, 50,000 is way more than anyone could ever need. Don’t really care about 250,000 flying pigs.

      • Lumia 900 ;) says

        You are right. On my iPad, I have only 70 apps. I really don’t need over 1 million apps on my Lumia 900. :)
        I’m waiting for this beautiful Lumia 900. :)

        • Luke Tomasello says

          I too was waiting for the Lumia 900 until I heard there may be a Lumia 910 with a 12 mp camera :)
          I love the Windows UI btw, very clean and I would spend less time digging through the Android/iPhone UI to find the app I want.

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Motorola Droid 4 Hands-on Video

Earlier today, Verizon announced the oft-rumored Motorola Droid 4 and while we still don’t know exactly when it’s going to be coming to shelves (Motorola and Verizon say in the coming weeks), we were able to go hands-on with it today at CES 2012.

The Droid 4 is the fourth incarnation of the original Droid and it replaces the Droid 3 which came out on the carrier’s 3G network back in July of 2011.

This latest Droid has two main features. The first is the laser-cut physical QWERTY keyboard that will surely delight keyboard enthusiasts of all backgrounds. This is one of the best physical keyboards to date and it blows keyboards like the one on the Samsung Stratosphere completely out of the water.

Seriously, it’s not even close.

It also features LED back-lighting and Motorola also went to great lengths to include things that people actually need. Gone is the function button and replacing it are useful keys like Caps Lock and Shift.

The other main feature of the Droid 4 is its 4G LTE radio, something that the Droid 3 did not have on board, which means it can grab data speeds up to 10 times faster than those found on regular old 3G.

Verizon’s latest Droid also boasts a sleek looking 4-inch qHD display and the thinnest form factor of any 4G LTE QWERTY smartphone on the market which made it a fantastic device to hold.

Android 2.3.5 performed admirably but the real test will be when it gets upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which Motorola says will be happening during Q2 of this year.

Overall, the Droid 4 appears to be a solid device amongst Verizon’s 4G LTE lineup but we’ll reserve final judgement until we can dig in further.

  1. Xtraxtra says

    I love this phone. Does it support 3G too? (LTE is not available in my country for now)

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Aromatic sweet herb, bearing a slight resemblance to parsley, having light green, lacy, fern-like leaves

Tender stemmed, about 10cm in height. Ferny type leaf used for a garnish.

A tender, velvety green sweet lettuce with a mild nutty flavour, having broad or narrow shaped dark or medium, round or spoon shaped leaves.

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Light green, irregularly-shaped leaves at the end of approx 150mm long stems. Has a mild, yet tangy flavour.

Italian. Dark green leaf. Smooth leaf has celery like flavour. Available from a very small size to 10cm in height.

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Dark green leaf. Strong in flavour, it is very popular in exotic fresh salads. Supplied approx 5cm high

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Fresh cucumber tasting herb with a flat rosette, spikey-toothed shaped leaf.

Long, green stringy, strong in flavour at short length.

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Deep green, clover-shaped leaves. Clustered or elongated stalks. Watercress adds a peppery, spicy flavour when used in a raw salad.

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Large Leaf Dutch type Mache, also know as corn salad or lambs tongue. It has a delightful hint of mint. Available in winter and early Spring.

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The taste , while very similar to French Tarragon, tends to be a little stronger. Chefs will often use a 50- 50 mix of Italian Parsley and Mexican Tarragon to more closley duplicate the taste of French Tarragon.

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The following news summaries are from OPM AM, the daily newsletter of the Office of Personnel Management. OPM AM is available on OPM Mainstreet, the agency's electronic bulletin board, at 202-606-4800.

SUCCESS OF PRIVATIZED BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS COMPANY UNCOVERS GOVERNMENT SAVINGS; CHANGES OPM'S PAYMENT TERMS--"After less than one year in operation, the privatization of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's former federally-employed investigators is poised to realize additional savings for taxpayers. So much so, the new employee-owned firm, US Investigations Services, Inc., is cutting investigative costs ahead of schedule and saving taxpayers more than $1 million over the next 13 months" (OPM Press Release, March 20).

FEDERAL DIARY--"What do diversity and buyouts have in common? It's hard to have the first without the second. Since Congress made buyouts more expensive, some agencies decided not to use them. But that could change this fall when agencies have the choice of paying older white male supervisors to leave or using layoffs, which put women and minorities at most risk" (Monday, March 24)...."Downsizing can produce some funny lumps in organizations. Companies (and federal agencies) often trim from the bottom and selected middle-management jobs but leave the executive offices alone.... Many downsized companies find they have more higher-paid people running smaller, more efficient (they hope) operations. Some federal agencies are seeing the same thing as they eliminate low-grade jobs, and some supervisors, but then discover they have sprouted more bosses" (Sunday, March 23).

AMERICANS GAIN A SMALL MEASURE OF CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT--"After years of poll data stressing what's wrong with government, a new survey finds Americans optimistic that government could be more effective and work better for them. But while there is some improvement in the public's trust in government, only one in five poll respondents expressed confidence in the federal government and the national government continues to enjoy less confidence than its state and local counterparts. The nonprofit, nonpartisan Council for Excellence in Government sponsored the survey of 1,003 adults, conducted by the research firms of Peter D. Hart and Robert M. Teeter" (The Washington Post).

IRS, UNION DECLARE IMPASSE OVER LAYOFFS--"Negotiators for the Internal Revenue Service and its union reached an impasse yesterday over the agency's plan to lay off between 1,400 and 1,600 workers. The dispute was turned over to a federal panel, which will impose a settlement" (The Washington Post).

ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERS MOVING FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES TO STATE DEPT.--"The Clinton administration is seriously considering a long-discussed overhaul of the government's foreign affairs agencies as part of an effort to accommodate Senate Foreign Relations committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), a persistent critic of administration policy. The agencies under consideration for consolidation or merger into the State Department are the Agency for international Development (AID), which administers U.S. economic and humanitarian assistance abroad; the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), which handles arms control and nuclear nonproliferation policies; and the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), which sponsors international broadcasting and cultural exchange programs" (The Washington Post).

ONE IN FOUR U.S. FAMILIES CARES FOR AGING RELATIVES--"The dramatic effect of this country's rapidly graying population is hitting home, with a nationwide survey released today showing nearly one in four households involved in the often stressful, time-consuming task of caring for an aging relative. The comprehensive look at care-giving found that 22.4 million families are providing physical and emotional assistance to older relatives or friends--a threefold increase from a decade ago" (The Washington Post).

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So before each hurricane approached, the IT staff dismantled the data center, boxed up the equipment and relocated it into a decommissioned water tank. With 8-inch thick concrete walls designed to hold 770,000 gallons, the water tank protected the technology. Because the equipment was disconnected; however, city staff couldn’t access their network.

“During the actual events of the hurricanes, there wasn’t Internet access, access to data or anything along those lines,” said Larry Di Gioia, director of information services for Altamonte Springs. “We’d come in the next morning and reassemble everything.”

The system disruptions and network downtime were a big disadvantage for citizens. “We had periods of time where we were literally down for multiple days and not able to service our customers,” said Anthony Apfelbeck, the city’s fire marshal and building official. The situation also precluded city departments from deploying new e-government services, he said. “We had no system reliability whatsoever.

Into the Dome

Following the 2004 hurricanes, the city enacted a multiyear plan for technology and disaster recovery planning that would provide continuity of operations during future storms and power outages. In June 2005, the city moved IT operations into the one place officials could rely on to keep it safe: the water tank.

Known as the “Dome,” the water tank was the obvious place to relocate the data center, Di Gioia said. “It held water in for a number of years as it served as water plant No. 1 for the city,” he said, “I’m sure it can keep water out just as well.”

Before the data center moved into the Dome, the Information Services and Public Works departments worked with an architect to modify the structure. Buildings were added onto two sides of the tank, and the original water tank infrastructure was retrofitted. It’s now a fully operational office structure, with the additions acting as administrative offices and the water tank structure housing the server room/data center area as well as some IT staff members.

On June 24, 2005, after the water tank was retrofitted and construction was complete, Information Services staff moved the IT equipment across the parking lot and into the Dome — for the last time. “It took us about three hours to cut everything over. … And we were up and running,” Di Gioia said.

Thankfully the Dome hasn’t been tested yet by a hurricane’s force, and the city’s network has yet to experience any unplanned downtime since the data center relocation, according to Apfelbeck.

IT Awakening

Creation of the multiyear plan marked the beginning of an IT shift in Altamonte Springs. Di Gioia began working for the city in May 2003, and that year he identified numerous deficiencies within the Information Services division. Among other things, the division lacked a disaster recovery plan, a defined mission, adequate infrastructure and alignment with the organization.

The city addressed one of those deficiencies in spring 2008 by opening the Public Works West Altamonte Facility, a hurricane resistant building that houses a backup data center. “Both [city data center] facilities are on dedicated generator tanks underground for fuel, full battery backup, surge protection, everything,” Di Gioia said. “All the generators are tested once a week, and we run off them. We also run our [disaster recovery] test twice a year.”

The disaster recovery site also is equipped with electronic door locks, video surveillance, fire suppression systems, as well as redundant heating, ventilating and air conditioning compressors.

Along with the new data centers, several IT upgrades have been implemented in the last eight years. Some projects and their benefits:

Virtualization reduced the number of city servers from 80 to 12 and cut maximum power consumption from 52,000 watts to 12,830 watts, both of which have resulted in cost savings.

A voice over Internet protocol telecommunications system was installed, providing one switch for voice and data.

The primary Police Department server package was outsourced to the county that Altamonte Springs resides in. “Rather than spending a million dollars on a new one, we partnered with the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office to house the data,” Di Gioia said. “We use their software, and it works fantastic for us.”

These projects have not only made the city more responsive to citizens’ needs, but they’ve also aided public safety. Police Cmdr. Robert Johansmeyer said a redundant fiber-optic loop ensures that all 16 of the city’s facilities never lose network operability. Di Gioia said the city leases fiber from Seminole County to be cost-effective. “We’re able to get great replication of the data, and that also gives us the ability to run continuous data protection,” he said.

In an emergency, police officers can now access their data and applications from computers in the city’s Emergency Operations Center, which is located in a different building than the police department, Johansmeyer said. “The end-user would never realize that connectivity was lost, or when we move locations, you would never notice that you’re working on a different computer,” he said.

Night and Day Difference

Changes to Altamonte Spring’s IT equipment and infrastructure have led to more convenient services for citizens. The biggest benefit has been reliability. “It’s confidence that we will serve the residents when they need us the most,” Di Gioia said.

The network reliability allowed the Building/Fire Safety Division to deploy new software that moved some if its services online, such as filing building permits, inspection requests and payment of fees. “Those capabilities we couldn’t even envision seven, eight or nine years ago,” Apfelbeck said.

The division also is responsible for damage assessments following a storm. Before the IT upgrades, city staff had to write everything by hand when working in the field, he said. In the next year, the city plans to roll out GIS-based damage assessment software that Apfelbeck said wouldn’t have been possible without better network reliability and confidence in the system.

“Ten years ago, we would have been pulling our hair out trying to respond to customers after a two-day time frame of having no access to our building permitting software and them wanting answers on whether inspections have passed and whether or not we’ve issued a permit,” Apfelbeck said. “We wouldn’t be able to answer it. That was a frequent occurrence, and today it’s just an absolute night and day difference.”

In addition, first responders have seen their work process change for the better. Johansmeyer said that prior to the IT upgrades, officers couldn’t access the city network while on patrol. Now they use laptops to access the city e-mail system and the network, which houses policy, procedure and reference materials. And another project the city began rolling out in January provides the same access to police officers who ride motorcycles. “We’ve never been able to get them a reliable solution for that kind of technology,” Johansmeyer said. The motorcycle-riding officers will use netbooks and thumb-drive air cards to access the network, marking the first time they will have access to this data while in the field.

The overarching change to Altamonte Springs since the relocation of the data center, said those involved, is that IT deployments and projects have a defined mission and are successful because of the collaboration among departments. “It’s been a flourishing relationship all the way around,” Johansmeyer said, “and it just keeps getting better and better.”

Elaine Pittman  |  Associate Editor

Elaine Pittman is the associate editor for Government Technology, Public CIO and Emergency Management. Before coming to Government Technology, she worked for The Coloradoan daily newspaper in Fort Collins, Colo. She can be reached via email and @elainerpittman on Twitter.


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President Richard Nixon dedicated Skidaway two years after its 1968 founding on land donated by the bridge building Roebling family. (photo Skidaway Institute of Oceanography)

The state university system is folding Savannah's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography into the University of Georgia.

Both schools conduct marine research.

Skidaway and UGA already work closely both in terms of locations and their missions unlocking the secrets of Georgia's economically important coast.

The Institute's James Sander's explains while UGA tends to academics, Skidaway is more focused on pure research.

"Skidaway's background and principal focus is in research," Sanders says. "The University of Georgia and its marine sciences department have an academic mission which is focused on education research and service."

Sanders says he believes the move will help align all of the coast's marine interests.

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Unbeknownst to me, I got punked last week. I was at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference talking to social conservatives and Republican leaders about Obama's immigration announcement, trying to find someone to discuss the "war on religion" the Obama administration is waging via the Affordable Care Act, attempting to untangle what the hell Glenn Beck was talking about.

But Luke Rudkowski, a boyish son of Polish immigrants from the organization "We Are Change," was on the scene. "We Are Change" sounds like a legitimate movement, but it's actually just an umbrella movement for conspiracy theorists—9/11 Truthers, Bilderbergers, those who fight the coming New World Order. According to Jonathan Kay in his new book Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground, Rudkowski first rose to prominence as the charismatic leader of the 9/11 Truther movement in New York. He's a follower of Ayn Rand and a protege of talk radio host Alex Jones. He first made a name for himself by screaming at Zbigniew Brzezinski that he was New World Order scum at a public lecture. The video went viral on YouTube.

"Hey Senator Rubio, what are your thoughts about the Bilderberg group?" He asks in the video, in a tone of voice just loud enough for the Senator to hear. But Rubio spends about two minutes signing books before bolting from the scrum and ignores the question completely.

"As you saw, you always have to be a step ahead of the mainstream, corporate, dumbed-down media," he says under his breath. He's so proud of beating the media to Rubio that he mentions it four times in the video (nevermind that the media was a half second behind him.) I can be spotted in a tan, gingham dress at 2:18, as he runs through the ballroom where Rubio is speaking, and again, around minute three, milling about the lobby waiting for social cons to come out of the ballroom and talk. Rudkowski has his cameraman turn around and film the lamestream media "waiting around" for Rubio, though he has long since left, as they gleefully flee from the phantom goons of the Corpratist Global Empire running them out of the building.

His other videos are like this too: chasing down some politician to confront them on a question they won't— and often probably can't— answer. I'd call it "gotcha journalism" except it is without the "gotcha" and without the "journalism." What it really amounts to is performance art— the kind that makes Rudkowski the hero, his targets the villains, and everyone else pawns. Then again...the guy has a much, much bigger following than I do (at least 9,000 more Twitter followers!) So maybe he knows something the rest of us don't about how to make it in the business:

1) Confront politician.

2) Ask their thoughts on: The Bilderberg group, 9/11, The Council on Foreign Relations, etc.

3) Chase politician until they get away.

4) Congratulate self.

5) Repeat.

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django-unchained-poster-jamie-foxxThe western has always been the American self-portrait. And while some of those portraits attempt to paint their subject in good light (High Noon, Stage Coach and How the West Was Won) the most resonantly powerful westerns are those with the bravery to paint the ugly truth (Unforgiven, The Searchers, The Wild Bunch and Once Upon a Time in the West). Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (Django) doesn’t just illuminate the most shameful parts of U.S pre-Civil War history, it infuses the flavours of the Blaxploitation genre to amplify the enduring resonance of oppression – and hence the need to discuss it.

A German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) frees a slave, Django (Jamie Foxx), to aid in the capture of particularly illusive prey. In exchange for his assistance Django’s promised help rescuing his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio.

Foxx is such an impressive and malleable performer. Oppressed, separated from his beloved Broomhilda, hopelessness and grief figuratively mirror his literal shackles. And yet, once King liberates Django however, Foxx’s inner fault line shifts and magma courses through his veins. With those fiery eyes and magnetic physical presence, you’re left staring into the precipice of a volcanic force waiting to be unleashed. Waltz represents European civilisation capitalising on America’s infancy. The erudite, slippery, cunning, philanthropist exploits the universally stupid and categorically uncivilised occupants of pre-Civil War Texas. Waltz has a showman’s presence that is infectious. There’s a grandiose, oratory quality to his delivery that you cannot help but be focused and grinning with anticipation with every word that’s about to drip from his mouth. Waltz gets raw as he exposes just how Schultz is haunted by the brutality toward the slaves. It’s a gripping contrast to see him wrestling with these acts that are fundamentally perverse to his soul, despite his trade in scalps. DiCaprio’s petulant faux-aristocrat Candie treads the tight rope between pomp and high order violence. It’s amazing to see his ascent to a 70s Robert De Niro level of consistency. Samuel L. Jackson’s Stephen provides a categorically large and over the top performance, as Calvin’s butler that totally disarms you when it’s flipped to reveal the extent of his rabid survival instincts.

From riders on sun-drenched prairie, to fur draped cowboys – their horses squelching through fresh snow, to entry into hostile territory framed through a hanging noose; Tarantino brings the visual essence from the best Western’s into play here. The heat sears, the grim of muddy town’s awakening sticks and the snow scapes feel blisteringly cold, there’s all the sublime grandeur and none of the gloss.

Django mixes stylised blood and flesh spattering brutality with bone breaking horror in a manipulative rhythm. King dispatches the slave traders and his routine bounties with ‘painterly’ theatrics; while Django relishes the tearing flesh.  For this reviewer one of the most powerful scenes in Tarantino’s oeuvre is Mr Blonde’s (Michael Madsen) ear removal in Reservoir Dogs. The potency in that scene is in Tarantino’s lyrical movement away from the overt violence to another part of the room – forcing the audience to unleash the power of their imaginations on the brutality of the torture. There is a scene in Django that Tarantino starts out in a similar illusive way, only to haunt you with the echoes of the violence flashing in Schultz’s consciousness. Tarantino makes the themes overt that Blaxploitation films infer with subtext.

And it wouldn’t be Tarantino without pitch perfect beat poetry of his scripting. In the same manner as Inglorious Basterds Tarantino’s characters impose themselves onto history, fast-tracking African American empowerment pre-Civil War. The quartet of Waltz, Foxx, Di Caprio and Jackson are staggeringly qualified to navigate the symphonic words that the performers make the words impossibly better.

Django Unchained is a contemporary revisionist western where Tarantino’s characters have the magic to actually revise history. And it’s fitting that one of the greatest American filmmakers of all time is using the western and blaxploitation genres to connect the enduring blemish on the American psyche – only to set loose a bad motherfucker to set it right.

Blake Howard – follow Blake on Twitter here: @blakeisbatman and listen to the audio review on That Movie Show 2UE here.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Written by: Quentin Tarantino

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christophe Waltz, Kerry Washington, Walton Goggins, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson and Leonardo DiCaprio


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Carl Johnson and The Truth preparing to set fire to the marijuana crops.

Carl Johnson and The Truth preparing to set fire to the marijuana crops.
Game GTA San Andreas
For The Truth
Target Burn down a weed farm, then destroy a police helicopter before moving to San Fierro.
Location Leafy Hollow, Flint County, San Andreas
Fail Death of Carl Johnson
Arrest of Carl Johnson
Death of The Truth
Arrest of The Truth
Destruction of the Mothership
Reward Respect
Unlocks Wear Flowers in Your Hair
San Fierro safehouses
5-star wanted level
Unlocked by Farewell, My Love...

Are You Going to San Fierro? is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, given to protagonist Carl Johnson by aging hippie The Truth from his farm in the Leafy Hollow area of Flint County, San Andreas.

After the completion of Farewell, My Love..., Catalina gives CJ a deed to the old Xoomer garage in Doherty, San Fierro. Then, The Truth calls, stating that the weed is finally ready, and asks Johnson to come see him. CJ walks in on the Truth doing a handstand. Not one minute later, a police helicopter is heard outside. The Truth panics, divides two flamethrowers between himself and Carl, and the pair begin to torch the farm. When they finish, CJ approaches The Truth. He gives Carl a Rocket Launcher. Carl destroys the chopper with the rocket launcher, which the Truth had been saving to turn into a lamp. The two hop into The Truth's Mothership and head to Claude's garage in Doherty, San Fierro. After getting there, the two realize it is run down, which makes Carl a little disgusted.

The Truth: Peace. I've got everything you need, lone traveler. It's in the Mothership back there.

Carl Johnson: Thanks, man. Look, here go your paper.

The Truth: Ah, the karmic circle closes. All is at it should be. Back to the egg. Oooommmmmm.

Carl Johnson: Damn, man, there must be two tons of that stuff back there.

The Truth: Threeeee. Ramayanaaaaa....

(Police helicopter sounds)

The Truth: What the fuck's that noise?

Carl Johnson: Hey, that sounds like a chopper.

The Truth: Oh man, narcs! You fucking rat.

Carl Johnson: Dude, don't put that on me! You're the one that deals with Tenpenny! What's all this?

The Truth: Calm, brother; panic paves the way to bad karma.

Carl Johnson: Man...

The Truth: We gotta torch those field. I only hope Gaia can forgive us!

(While burning the weed field)

The Truth: Assholes! Right-wing assholes!

Carl Johnson: I don't, I don't feel too good...

The Truth: It's a crying shame, ain't it.

Carl Johnson: No I mean I think I'm gonna black out!

The Truth: Fight the ocean and you will drown, brother! Carl, man, we'll take the mothership and get our shit out of here!

Carl Johnson: Go get her fired up! I'll finish burnin', and I'll follow you!

(After destroying the field, Carl talks to the Truth)

Carl Johnson: We got a chopper on our tail, we'll never shake 'em now.

The Truth: Hold on, I got a little something back here I was saving for a rainy day.

Carl Johnson: Holy motherfucker! Where'd you get that?

The Truth: Found it in a bail of Thai Sticks. Shame really, I was going to make it into a lamp.

(While on the way to the garage)

Carl Johnson: What you pull over for?

The Truth: You better drive. I have driven in 15 years.

Carl Johnson: You was doin' alright.

The Truth: Yeah, then the fear hit me. Now I'm rolling a number to calm the waves!

Carl Johnson: Shit, I better call Cesar! (dials phone) Hey Cesar, no time to talk, man! I'm on my way to San Fierro, OK, I'll meet you and Kendl at that garage I won at that races. Holla at y'all later!

(sometimes later)

Carl Johnson : What's with all the aluminum foil, man?

The Truth: Protection from mind control, dude.

Carl Johnson: Mind control?

The Truth: Induction of images, sound or emotion using microwave radiation. D'you know how many government satellites are watching any citizen at any moment?

Carl Johnson: No.

The Truth: Twenty-three. Do you know how many religious relics are kept at The Pentagon?

Carl Johnson: No, I don't.

The Truth: Twenty three. You see a pattern emerging here, man?

Carl Johnson: Man, I'm seeing patterns all over the place! Get that smoke out of my face!

The Truth: Hey, you want a hit on this? A little Temple Charas in a cocktail with some Nepalese munga munga.

Carl Johnson: Put that thing out, man, I can't see.

The Truth: Hey, mellow out, brother. It's good shit.

Carl Johnson: Put it out, motherfucker, I'm warning you!

The Truth: Wooah, chill the fuck out! Firstly, you are a real buzz killer, amigo. And secondly, I never made love to my mother. She wouldn't. And thirdly, we're in this together, so be cool.

Carl Johnson: Sorry, man, I just don't drive when I'm faded. Hey, this thing go any faster?

The Truth: Man, we got 3 tons of grass on board, the engine block is held together with a macramé hammock, and it's running on 15-year-old cooking oil.

Carl Johnson: Shit. Can you shoot?

The Truth: Shoot? I'm a hippy! The only thing I've shot is acid. I heard about this dude who snorted it once. Thought his nose what a kangaroo and the moon was a dog.

(CJ and Truth arrive in San Fierro)

The Truth: Whooo! There she is, brother; San Fierro: the City of Psychedelic Wonders!

Carl Johnson: Man, I can't believe I haven't been here before.

The Truth: There ain't a better place to escape the man, man.

Carl Johnson: OK, Mr. San Fierro, where the spot at?

The Truth: It's in Doherty on the East side of Fierro, between Garcia and Easter Basin.

Carl Johnson: Jesus, we're screwed, when'd you get this?

The Truth: 1967.

Carl Johnson: How'd you get around if you don't drive?

The Truth: I have an astral goat called 'Herbie'. She's faster than most, but gettin' old...

(They arrive at the garage)

The Truth: This is the place. Whoa, Jesus dude, looks like you've been fed a bummer.

The reward for this mission is increased respect. The mission Wear Flowers in Your Hair is unlocked, and so is the ability to purchase safehouses in San Fierro. Also, the ability to obtain a 5-star wanted level is unlocked.

  • This mission tends to crash after the cutscene beginning the mission, on the PC version of the game. It usually only happens if run on the operating system, Windows Vista, for an unknown reason. Perhaps it's because the Windows Vista OS was released a few years after the game was released on PC.
  • After CJ burns several pot plants, he'll complain for not feeling good, and the screen start tilting left and right, as effect of CJ being high from inhaling the weed smoke. Similar effects occur in Boomshine Saigon in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, when Tommy Vercetti becomes intoxicated from the explosion of Phil Cassidy's boomshine; and Purple Haze in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, when Victor Vance becomes high on drugs as he takes a van to a lockup for Gonzalez.
  • When asked where he got his rocket launcher, the Truth mentions he was saving it for a rainy day.
    • A similar situation occurs in Rub Out in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where Lance Vance, having been asked by Tommy Vercetti about the M4 assault rifles he pulls out from the trunk of his Stallion, mentions that he's "been saving it for a rainy day".
  • To avoid taking damage from the flames, it is best to complete all 12 levels of the Firefighter missions before attempting this mission.
  • For some reason, even if the player has no wanted level while in the farm, when they shoot down the police helicopter, the police radio can still be heard calling out a 10-91 (aircraft destruction) in Leafy Hollow.

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The Top 20 Moments in Cleveland Sports by Bob Dyer

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Documents what it means to be a Cleveland sports fan: the suffering, the joy and the hope that there is always next year . . . perfect for die-hard Cleveland fans (and really, is there any other kind?) — News Leader

Relive the 20 most sensational events in Cleveland sports history. These are the moments Northeast Ohioans still talk about, decades later—and will probably continue to debate, bemoan, and otherwise cherish for generations to come.

Many are known by shorthand: Red Right 88. The Drive. The Fumble. Beer Night. Game Seven. Some of these moments are almost painful to recall—like that one heart-stopping play in January 1981 that kept the “Kardiac Kids” out of the Super Bowl. Or Michael Jordan's jaw-dropping shot to knock the Cavs out of the playoffs in May of 1989.

But we Cleveland fans have long feasted on a steady diet of sports misery without ever losing a taste for the pursuit of onfield glory. And we have sampled that glory, too. Like the Tribe's exhilarating 1995 sprint into the playoffs. Or the upstart Cavaliers' “Miracle of Richfield in 1976. And of course the Browns' thrilling upset victory over the Baltimore Colts in the 1964 NFL championship game.

Glorious or gut-wrenching, each of these memories is a highlight of the shared experience of sports fans in Northeast Ohio. They represent a seemingly unquenchable spirit—the very spirit that keeps up late into the night, honking our horns in parking garages and exchanging high-fives with total strangers on East Ninth Street, or trudging on Sundays down to the edge of Lake Erie, wearing dog masks and carrying elaborate banners drawn on bedsheets.

These stories are a great way to revive the spirit—and pass it along to the next generation of fans.

Illustrations: 31 black-and-white photographs

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Since joining the Akron Beacon Journal in 1984, Bob Dyer has earned 53 regional and national writing awards. He was voted Best Columnist in the Nation by the National Society of Professional Journalists (2008) and Best Humor Columnist by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists (2013). He was named Best Columnist in Ohio by at least one professional journalism organization for six consecutive years. Dyer was one of the lead writers for "A Question of Color," a yearlong examination of racial attitudes in Akron that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994. He has also written two books. More About Bob Dyer

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The American Benefits Council compared recent congressional action to an economic stimulus when it praised the U.S. House and U.S. Senate for ratifying the Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act.

“These relief provisions, included as a revenue offset for the Medicare Elements, will help many large American employers manage artificially inflated pension obligations and reduce layoffs,” said James Klein, ABC president, in a statement.

The council said the measure will help save jobs because it gives companies more time to repay the huge losses brought about by depressed financial markets, low interest rates and the 2006 pension funding rules.

“This legislation will allow employers to responsibly fund their retirement plans while also driving economic growth,” said Klein.

In general, the act contains the following provisions:

  • A choice between electing funding relief under the 2 plus 7 rule or the 15-year rule for any two years during the 2008-2011 period.

  • There isn’t a requirement for a plan to provide ongoing accruals in order to be eligible for the funding relief.

  • Under the cash flow rule, a plan sponsor that elects funding relief must make an additional contribution to the plan equal to the sum of (1) the aggregate excess employee compensation, and (2) the aggregate amount of dividends and stock redemption over a specific threshold.

  • The act requires reporting and disclosure by plan sponsors electing funding relief.

  • Generally, if a plan is at least 60 percent funded for the 2008 year, benefit accruals do not need to be frozen for the 2009 or 2010 plan years. The act provides similar short-term relief from the prohibited payment benefit restriction applicable to social security leveling options.

  • The act provides a look-back rule that generally permits plan sponsors that are charities to use their credit balance for the 2010 and 2011 plan years if their plan was at least 80 percent funded for the 2008 year.

  • Plans subject to the funding rules in effect before the Pension Protection Act of 2006 are generally allowed to choose modified versions of the 2- and 7-rule and the 15-year amortization rule. In addition, certain plans maintained by charities become subject to the pre-PPA funding rules.

More information about the act is available online at

President Barack Obama signed the bill into law late last month.

“We applaud the efforts of House and Senate lawmakers, particularly those who have worked on a bipartisan basis to champion this important relief throughout the legislative process,” said Klein.

“This kind of constructive, collaborative approach will be essential for addressing retirement security challenges.”

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