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Native Instruments Reaktor
Reaktor from Native Instruments is a very flexible and great sounding software-based modular real-time synthesizer, sampler and effects processor. Select from a large library of synths/samplers or build and create your own! It functions just as any other Modular Dream machine would except that in its software environment, there are virtually unlimited amounts of flexibility, patchability and sonic possibilities. But prepare for a steep learning curve if you don't already know a lot about how synthesizers use oscillators, filters, envelopes, effects, LFOs and so much more to generate sounds.
The Panel layouts of most modules are straight forward and offer a lot of functionality, but the greatest challenge is in patching and building these modules. Not only do you patch modules, but you create, add and assign knobs and buttons to control the various parameters of the module (can you say, tedious?). Even the real-time Midi controllers have to be assigned. Of course Reaktor comes with plenty of preset patches to play with and get you going, and storage of your own creations is virtually limitless! As usual with software synthesizers, the bigger and better your Windows or Macintosh computer is, the better Reaktor will perform, with almost no Midi-audio latency issues on computers over 200MHz and with well over 100MB RAM.
Reaktor is all about modules. Just about any imaginable oscillator including FM-synthesis and osc-syncing are available. Synthesis is handled by the Generator component of Reaktor. Synthesis methods include analog modeling, FM, sample-playback and granular hybrid. The other major component to Reaktor is the Transformator, a sample player. Though it isn't a full-featured sampler it offers all the basic editing needs including some cool time-shift, resampling and key mapping functions. Sounds are loaded from libraries and can be traded with other Reaktor users over the internet. Still, it seems this sampler is there just for kicks when you compare it to the capabilities of the Generator synth section!
For its price, Reaktor offers almost unlimited synthesis potential at a steal of a price! But the complexity involved even in creating the simplest patch may limit it to synth Programmers with PhDs, who enjoy tediously creating and assigning each knob within a module and then patching together various modules. Using Reaktor can be very challenging and very rewarding, but unless you have a lot of free time to tinker with it or you just want to learn the intricacies of signal-flow concepts and logic of synthesis, it may just overwhelm you. In other words, if you had trouble using ReBirth, don't even think about tackling Reaktor! But for that professional synthesist out there, you're sure to fall in love with the synthesis power of Reaktor! Demo sounds and Plug-In demos and updates are available from Native Instruments.
REAKTOR 3 offers optimized performance, a redesigned user interface and many new functions and modules. Drag-and-drop capabilities have been added, as well as selectable background colors with decoration bitmap integration and an extended interface for the handling of snapshots. REAKTOR 3.0 supports the DirectX plug-in interface. The new tape decks are capable of reading audio files directly from and writing them directly to disk. MP3 files may be loaded and played as well. Akai samples can be read directly from CD. REAKTOR 4 adds support for Mac OS X and Windows XP, Audio Units, CoreAudio and CoreMidi. Automation of ALL parameters is enabled in v.4 as well as sample mapping technology borrowed from Kontakt. Reaktor 4 allows for 32-bit samples to be used, there's a new granular delay effect, and an anti-aliasing feature for the oscillators (borrowed from the Pro-53) to give Reaktor even more realistic synth emulation capabilities. There's even a whole new Library in v.4 that takes advantage of these new features.
Reaktor has been used by Juno Reactor, Matmos, LFO, Depeche Mode, Kid 606, Richard Devine, Squarepusher, Autechre, Mouse On Mars, Dan Hekate, Somatic Responses, and Coldcut.
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- Demos & Media
Audio Clip 1 - This demo features some sequenced synth sounds and percussion created by Reaktor.
Audio Clip 2 - A series of Reaktor 3 sounds, from Future Music CD, issue 118
- Specifications
- Polyphony - Variable, depends on CPU speed and complexity of patch
- Synthesis - Over 200 basic modules and a comprehensive macro library for building up instruments from scratch. Analog modeling, FM synthesis, sample-playback, granular synthesis. Libraries with hundreds of instruments and thousands of presets available separately.
- Sampler - Variable 22kHz to 132kHz! AIFF and WAV sound formats supported
- Sequencer - 6-step, 8-step, 12-step and 16-step sequencer modules
- Memory - Unlimited, saves to disk
- Windows/PC - Windows 98/ME/2000, Pentium 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM
- Macintosh - Mac OS 8.6 through Mac OS X, PPC 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM
- Interfaces - AudioUnits, RTAS, CoreAudio, CoreMidi, ASIO, Sound Manager, MME, DirectSound, VST 2.0, MAS, FreeMidi, DirectConnect and DXi
- Date Produced - 1999 - 2004
- Websites of Interest
Top Reaktor site - 4 Magazines Reviews!
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Terry Hicks has been the president of the Western Wisconsin AFL-CIO for 17 years. He's also been a union member for more than 40 years. In 2009, Hicks published a book on the history of labor unions in La Crosse called La Crosse Labors. There are both public and private sector workers within the AFL-CIO.
Don Salyards is a professor of economy at Winona State University. He started his career at WSU in 1975, the first year a union was established at Winona State. Salyards is a public employee who is required by Minnesota law to be represented by a union. For 35 years, Salyards has been a Fair Share member of the faculty union on campus. This means he chooses not to be a member and therefore only pays 85-percent of the monthly union dues, and does not participate in union activities.
As you can imagine, both men have very different views on whether unions are relevant in today's society. We'll hear their thoughts and learn a little bit about the history of organized labor which today makes up about 12-percent of the work force in the U.S.
"Industrial unions started way back. And when you went through the industrial revolution, businesses got bigger and employees were often mistreated-treated. So there were historical reasons to have unions," said Don Salyards, Winona State University Professor of Economics.
In fact, in the late 1800s and early 1900s very young children were working long hours, women made far less money than men, and safety in the work place was a huge issue.
"Workers lives were thrown away they didn't care if you died inhaling coal dust, because there were no laws to protect you," said Terry Hicks, Western Wisconsin AFL-CIO president. "And if you died, they'd replace you with another body."
So, most people don't dispute the fact that historically unions fought for many of the worker protections we have today. But whether we still need unions to represent groups of workers to negotiate wages and working conditions, which we call collective bargaining, is what is being debated so passionately in Madison.
"So there were historical reasons to have unions. Most of those reasons are non-existent today. The kind of exploitation that happened 100 years ago doesn't take place today," said Salyards. "As we've gone from a manufacturing to a service economy and now a global economy, unions have just lost their relevance."
The Western Wisconsin union president disagrees.
"Every fast food restaurant in La Crosse has what I would call children working there from 16-17 years old," said Hicks. "We've had to fight for laws to keep those industries from forcing them to work longer hours without overtime still in this modern era."
And Hicks feels without unions, workers will be taken advantage of again.
"If we had no unions what-so-ever, would you like to be thrown on the world free market and have your wages driven down to 21 cents an hour like they are in China," asked Hicks.
Lisa Klein: "Do you think that's what would happen without unions?"
"Not immediately," said Hicks, "but even with unions we have seen wages... Productivity in America has continued to go up amongst the workers, particularly union workers, where we keep statistics, and wages have not kept pace."
But Salyards feels the economy would benefit from people representing themselves. He believes for companies to stay competitive in today's market-place they'll need to meet the needs of the worker because workers are much more mobile today.
"You have to keep people happy and pay them as much as you possibly can relative to the competition to keep them," said Salyards. "So, the idea that regular non-unionized people don't have power is ludicrous. They have power in the skills they bring to the table. Nobody can run a business without labor."
But Hicks argues what happens to the wages and the jobs of the laborer whose competition is making low wages in China? Without a union, who protects those workers?
"It's a global economy," said Salyards. "And if wages get too high, then people either buy from Mexico or China or open up plants in China and Mexico. While, unions are going to say that costs us jobs... everybody likes to go to Walmart and buy something cheap that was made in China that's good quality. So, everybody wants Chinese prices and they want $20 an hour wages. Well, it doesn't work that way.
The core of this issue boils down to protecting a workers job and compensation. Hicks believes a union provides a checks and balances-type system. And if unions are removed from our work force the wages and benefits of all workers, union or non-union, will be reduced or eliminated.
"Unions benefit all workers whether you're in a union or not. It's like that famous economist said, 'a rising tide lifts all boats.' By the fact that unions exist and have negotiated an hourly wage and benefits, vacations, days off, non-union employers have to come close to that or why would their employees not leave them for a unionized employer," said Hicks. "Remove us entirely from the mix and you're putting your trust in corporate figures who have already proven they have no inhibitions on their bonuses and salaries despite the sinking wages of their employees."
Salyards, who also owns his own company, says employers don't need a union to provide a checks and balances system. The workers bring that to the table themselves.
"I have a check against my own people," said Salyards. "If I don't keep them happy, if I don't keep them satisfied, I'm going to lose them. When I get a skilled person to walk out the door, it's going to take me years to replace them. And so, if we do have somebody quit that's skilled it's painful. So, painful."
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What does your job entail? I describe my job as looking after the Gallery's Public Programming outside of exhibitions. As the Gallery is open seven days a week and we provide services for all ages, it's a fairly demanding, intense, but satisfying, job. I am also Secretary to the Gallery Board of Governors.
What is a typical day like for you? No typical day – each one is different and that's what makes NGI fun and interesting! It's all dependent on what meetings, appointments etc., are scheduled, research that needs to be done, presentations prepared, a chat in the corridor with colleagues, coffee with the team to catch up on stuff…
What did you study? History of Art and Archaeology though my PhD was in museum studies.
What is your favourite part of your job, or about working at the National Gallery? Interaction with the public; seeing them fulfilled by contemplating the collection, their satisfaction listening to a first class lecture, enjoyment at taking part in a Creative Art 55+ workshop, being creatively fulfilled at a drawing course, squeals of delight at the baby and toddler workshops, and the learning taking place on the family programme between parents and children. Then there is seeing people dating in the café, getting engaged beside 'The Meeting on the Turret Stairs' and married in No. 5 … how good does it get!
Can you describe a particularly memorable experience you've had at the Gallery? A visitor who participated in National Drawing Day in May said that she'd taken part in the drawing sessions, attended the noontime talk on George Bernard Shaw, listened to the musical trio over lunch, looked at her favourite Irish paintings, bought cards in the shop and was rushing for the train back to Belfast. She said it was the best day of her life.What is your first memory of the National Gallery? As I recall, as a child I was brought by Sr. Robarts to the Gallery with 5th class Our Lady's School Templeogue to see in a long dark room Maclise's huge painting 'The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife'. We wore our winter uniform of camel coats, hats and navy kilts.
My advice to students hoping to work in the arts would be… travel, visit every gallery and museum, and look at as many works of art as you can. Gain experience in graduate internships, guiding, assisting in art festivals, talking to people. Push yourself to try out new experiences in the arts that you won't have time to later on.
What is on your cultural calendar for the upcoming year (apart from events in the Gallery)? A private view of the refurbished Imperial War Museum/IWM in London (NGI is part of the WWI commemoration project). A presentation that I am scheduled to give at the ICOM CECA Conference in Alexandria, Egypt and another a NODEM conference in Poland.
Which ONE art work/object/book would you take with you to a desert island? Frederic William Burton's 'The Aran fisherman's Drowned Child' because of the depth and richness of events taking place in the picture, a work which few are aware is a watercolour. It is a fascinating pre-Famine painting and a classic example of a 'picture that tells a story', which is about the Irish people, their history and heritage – it's not going to anywhere because its condition is fragile and it has to be kept in the correct environmental conditions! One of Ireland's finest decorative arts objects – it has to be the Tara Brooch [National Museum of Ireland]– for its relationship to the history of Ireland – and I'd take a volume of poetry…
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My patient was taking glipizide (an oral sulfonylurea) for type 2 diabetes. Now she is pregnant and taking insulin instead. She is very anxious to return to her previous treatment immediately after delivery because of the pain and hurdles associated with the administration of insulin. Can sulfonylureas cross into human milk and, if so, is it safe for her to breastfeed her infant?
The exposure of infants to second-generation sulfonylureas (eg, glipizide, glyburide) through breast milk is expected to be minimal, based on the limited data available. Women with type 2 diabetes treated with sulfonylureas should not be discouraged from breastfeeding. The benefits of breastfeeding greatly outweigh the risks of these medications, if any. The baby should, however, be monitored for signs of hypoglycemia.
Ma patiente prenait du glipizide (sulfonylurée par voie orale) pour un diabète de type 2. Elle est maintenant enceinte et prend plutôt de linsuline. Elle a bien hâte de revenir à son ancien traitement et veut le faire immédiatement après laccouchement à cause de la douleur et des embarras associés à ladministration dinsuline. Est-ce que les sulfonylurées peuvent passer dans le lait maternel et, dans laffirmative, est-il sécuritaire pour elle dallaiter son nourrisson?
Selon les données limitées à notre disposition, on pourrait sattendre à ce que lexposition du nourrisson aux sulfonylurées de deuxième génération (p. ex., glipizide, glyburide) par lintermédiaire du lait maternel soit minimale. Il ne faudrait pas décourager les femmes ayant un diabète de type 2 et traitées aux sulfonylurées dallaiter leur enfant. Les avantages de lallaitement dépassent largement les risques de ces médicaments, sil en est. Il faudrait par ailleurs surveiller chez le bébé tout signe dhypoglycémie.
Sulfonylureas are oral hypoglycemics commonly prescribed for type 2 diabetes mellitus, as they stimulate the release of insulin from the pancreas.1 These drugs are classified into first-generation (eg, chlorpropamide, tolbutamide) and second-generation agents (eg, glyburide, glipizide, glimepiride, and gliclazide). First-generation sulfonylureas are rarely used nowadays owing to a high incidence of adverse reactions. Second-generation drugs possess better safety profiles and are more potent than the older agents.2 Sulfonylureas act on the sulfonylurea receptor, an adenosine triphosphatedependent potassium channel, stimulating the depolarization of pancreatic ? cells and triggering insulin secretion via exocytosis.3 Sulfonylureas also inhibit hepatic clearance of insulin.4
Sulfonylureas are absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract quickly; they appear in blood within 15 minutes of ingestion but have a prolonged duration of action,4 especially the extended-release preparations. Sulfonylureas are mostly metabolized in the liver to metabolites excreted renally.5 Peak plasma concentrations of second-generation sulfonylureas occur within 2 to 4 hours of therapeutic doses.6 Duration of action is 12 to 24 hours.6,7
First-generation sulfonylureas have, to a limited extent, been shown to cross into breast milk. Tolbutamide is excreted into breast milk in small amounts (less than 0.5% of the maternal weight-adjusted dose). A 500-mg dose of tolbutamide twice daily produced milk levels of 3 and 18 µg/mL in 2 patients, with milk-to-plasma ratios of 0.09 and 0.40, respectively.8 In 1 patient, chlorpropamide was found in breast milk at concentrations of 5 µg/mL (approximately 10% of the maternal weight-adjusted dose) after a 500-mg maternal oral dose.9 No clinical effects to the exposed infants were reported.
Transfer of second-generation sulfonylureas into breast milk has been studied, with similar results. A Motherisk study examining the transfer of glyburide and glipizide into breast milk failed to detect these drugs in breast milk.10 In a recent study,8 mothers who had recently delivered were given a single dose of glyburide, 5 mg (n = 6) or 10 mg (n = 2), and maternal blood and milk were tested at 8 hours after the dose. The authors estimated that the maximum dose that a fully breastfed infant would receive with maternal 5- and 10-mg daily doses would be below 1.5% of the maternal weight-adjusted dose.10 Another group of mothers (N = 5) received daily doses of glyburide (nonmicronized 5 mg) or glipizide (immediate-release 5 mg). Neither glyburide nor glipizide could be detected in breast milk. Blood glucose levels were normal in all 3 infants who were exclusively breastfed (glyburide [n = 1], glipizide [n = 2]). Based on these data, maternal exposure to these drugs seems unlikely to exert any clinically significant pharmacologic action on breastfed infants.
Extensive binding of glyburide and glipizide to plasma proteins has been postulated as the reason for the observed lack of transfer of these drugs into breast milk.10
Sulfonylureas offer substantial therapeutic benefits to women with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and an expanding number of pregnant women are taking these medications for the treatment of gestational diabetes or type 2 diabetes during pregnancy.11 The benefits provided by these medications seem to outweigh the small theoretical risk posed by the minimal (if any) excretion of these drugs into breast milk. These medications are likely compatible with breastfeeding, provided that monitoring the baby for signs of hypoglycemia is feasible.12
Metformin with breastfeeding
Metformin is a widely used oral, biguanide hypoglycemic drug for the management of type 2 diabetes. Metformin stimulates glucose uptake in the liver and peripheral tissues and decreases hepatic glucose production. These actions are the result of an enhanced tissue response to insulin and therefore require the presence of insulin. Metformin is not expected to cause hypoglycemia.13
Three studies have evaluated the transfer of metformin into breast milk. In one study, 5 women taking a median dose of 1500 mg/d of metformin had average breast milk levels of 0.27 mg/L, amounting to an estimated 0.28% of the maternal weight-adjusted dose ingested by the infant. Very low or undetectable concentrations of metformin were observed in the plasma of the 4 babies studied.14 A second study looking at breast milk transfer of metformin enrolled 7 women who took 1000 mg/d of the drug. The milk concentrations observed were similar to those of the previous study, with estimated doses ingested by the infants below 1% of the maternal weight-adjusted dose.15 Another study involving 8 women (3 at steady state and 5 after single 500-mg doses of metformin) estimated that nursing infants would ingest about 0.11% to 0.25% of the maternal weight-adjusted dose.16
A recent prospective study followed 61 breastfed and 50 formula-fed infants born to 92 mothers with polycystic ovary syndrome taking 1.5 to 2.55 g of metformin daily throughout pregnancy and lactation.17 The authors concluded that metformin use during lactation had no adverse effects on breastfed infants growth, motor-social development, or intercurrent illnesses, compared with formula-fed infants.
Metformin is considered a first-line agent for the treatment of type 2 diabetes,13 and has also been proposed as a useful drug for the management of gestational diabetes.18 The very limited amounts of metformin observed in breast milk are highly unlikely to lead to substantial exposure in the breastfed baby. Metformin can be considered a safe medication for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in a breastfeeding mother.
The available data suggest that the levels of glyburide and glipizide in milk are negligible and would not be expected to cause adverse effects in breastfed infants; however, as data are based on a single study with a limited sample size, monitoring of the breastfed infant for signs of hypoglycemia is advisable during maternal therapy with any of these agents.
Treatment with metformin during lactation is unlikely to lead to toxicity in the breastfed infant. Given the safety profile of metformin, as compared with sulfonylureas, it is advisable to consider metformin as first-line treatment during lactation if this drug is appropriate for the particular patient. Nevertheless, second-generation sulfonylureas are also likely to be safe during lactation.
Other oral medications currently used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, such as the thiazolidinediones and acarbose, have not been studied in the lactation period.
- Nathan DM, Roussell A, Godine JE. Glyburide or insulin form metabolic control in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A randomized, double-blind study. Ann Intern Med 1988;108(3):33440. [Medline]
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- Gerich JE. Oral hypoglycemic agents. N Engl J Med 1989;321(18):123145. [Medline]
- Harrigan RA, Nathan MS, Beattie P. Oral agents for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus: pharmacology, toxicity, and treatment. Ann Emerg Med 2001;38(1):6878. [Medline]
- Matteucci MJ. One pill can kill: assessing the potential for fatal poisoning in children. Pediatr Ann 2005;34(12):9648. [Medline]
- Sulphonylureas. AHFS drug information. Bethesda, MD: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists; 1998. p. 25957.
- Hussain K, Mundy H, Aynsley-Green A, Champion M. A child presenting with disordered consciousness, hallucinations, screaming episodes and abdominal pain. Eur J Pediatr 2002;161(2):1279. [Medline]
- Moiel RH, Ryan JR. Tolbutamide orinase in human breast milk. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 1967;6(8):480.
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- Briggs GG, Freeman RK, Yaffe SJ. Drugs in pregnancy and lactation. 8th ed ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott William & Wilkins; 2008. p. 331.
- Feig DS, Briggs GG, Kraemer JM, Ambrose PJ, Moskovitz DN, Nageotte M, et al. Transfer of glyburide and glipizide into breast milk. Diabetes Care 2005;28(8):18515. [Abstract/Free Full Text]
- Moretti ME, Rezvani M, Koren G. Safety of glyburide for gestational diabetes: a meta-analysis of pregnancy outcomes. Ann Pharmacother 2008;42(4):48390. [CrossRef]
- Feig DS, Briggs GG, Koren G. Oral antidiabetic agents in pregnancy and lactation: a paradigm shift? Ann Pharmacother 2007;41(7):117480. Epub 2007 May 29. [CrossRef]
- Setter SM, Iltz JL, Thams J, Campbell RK. Metformin hydrochloride in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a clinical review with a focus on dual therapy. Clin Ther 2003;25(12):29913026. [Medline]
- Hale TW, Kristensen JH, Hackett LP, Kohan R, Ilett KF. Transfer of metformin into human milk. Diabetologia 2002;45(11):150914. Epub 2002 Sep 25. [Medline]
- Briggs GG, Ambrose PJ, Nageotte MP, Padilla G, Wan S. Excretion of metformin into breast milk and the effect on nursing infants. Obstet Gynecol 2005;105(6):14374. [Medline]
- Gardiner SJ, Kirkpatrick CM, Begg EJ, Zhang M, Moore MP, Saville DJ. Transfer of metformin into human milk. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2003;73(1):717. [Medline]
- Glueck CJ, Salehi M, Sieve L, Wang P. Growth, motor, and social development in breast- and formula-fed infants of metformin-treated women with polycystic ovary syndrome. J Pediatr 2006;148(5):62832. [Medline]
- Rowan JA, Hague WM, Gao W, Battin MR, Moore MP. MiG Trial Investigators. Metformin versus insulin for the treatment of gestational diabetes. N Engl J Med 2008;358(19):200315. [CrossRef]


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Pectus excavatum repair is surgery to correct pectus excavatum. This is a deformity of the front of the chest wall that causes a sunken breastbone (sternum) and ribs.
Pectus excavatum is often called a funnel or sunken chest. It occurs at birth, and often gets worse during adolescence.
Funnel chest repair; Chest deformity repair; Sunken chest repair; Cobbler's chest repair; Nuss repair
There are two types of surgery to repair this condition -- open surgery and closed (minimally invasive) surgery. Both of these are done while the child is in a deep sleep and pain-free from general anesthesia.
Open surgery is more traditional. In this method, the surgeon makes a cut across the front part of the chest.
The second type of surgery is a closed, less invasive method (Nuss repair). It is used mostly for children. No cartilage or bone is removed.
The surgery may take 1 to 4 hours.
The most common reason for pectus excavatum repair is to improve the appearance of children who feel very self-conscious about the sunken look of their chest wall. Sometimes the deformity is so severe that it affects breathing, especially in adults later in life.
Some people may have difficulty exercising or pain that comes and goes.
Surgery is usually not done before age 6. Best results are seen when the surgery is done before adulthood.
Surgery is usually done on children who are 12 to 16 years old. It can also be done on adults in their early 20s.
The risks for any anesthesia are:
The risks for any surgery are:
Risks for this surgery are:
All patients need to have a complete medical exam and a variety of tests before the surgery. The surgeon will perform the following:
Always tell your child's doctor or nurse:
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It is common for children to stay in the hospital for 1 week. How long your child stays will probably depend on the level of discomfort after surgery.
Pain is common after the surgery. For the first few days, your child may receive strong pain medicine in the vein (through an IV) or through a catheter placed in the spine (an epidural). After that, pain is usually managed with medicines taken by mouth.
Your child may have tubes in the chest around the surgical cuts. These tubes drain extra fluid that builds up and help the lungs expand. The tubes will remain in place until they stop draining, usually after a few days.
The day after surgery, your child will be encouraged to sit up, take deep breaths, and get out of bed and walk. These activities will help healing.
At first, your child will not be able to bend, twist, or roll from side to side. Activities will slowly be increased.
When your child can walk without help, he or she is probably ready to go home. Before leaving the hospital, you will receive a prescription for pain medicine for your child.
Improvements in appearance are usually good. Improvements in breathing or ability to exercise varies from patient to patient.
Boas SR. Skeletal diseases influencing pulmonary function. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW III, et al., eds. Nelson Textbook of Medicine. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 411.
Chung D. Pediatric surgery. In: Townsend CM Jr, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 67.
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Sorry I disappeared last week ladies, life got very, very, very, very hectic. It's still going to be hectic this week but hopefully more manageable if I'm disciplined. I've just had so many job interviews all of a sudden pulling me in 1,000 directions (though I know this is a problem many would kill to have...) on top of my lecturing that it's been very hard to stay focused. I stopped logging after Wednesday last week. I know I didn't go entirely off the rails, but I think I ate a lot of sodium and I'm up to 159.1 this morning. Hopefully, that's just salt, and I can get back down to where I saw 156 for a brief, shining moment in the sun.
My sister also had a health scare and I was distracted on the phone with family a lot, but she seems to be okay now. Just more meds to add to her daily regiment, which is already scary-big
Have had three job interviews on the phone in the past few days. One of them was so-so, one was good, and one went VERY well, to the point where the guy basically told me that they're going to invite me out for a campus interview (His words were "I can't say this for certain because the Dean needs to approve, but it's very likely we'll invite you out" -- which means to me "I am going to recommend you but I have to wait for the Dean to sign it before I can say that" in academia-speak). I'll wait to hear back from the other two. I've also been contacted by a community college that wants to invite me for a campus interview, so things are moving along there. Not sure if a community college is what I want for the long term - it'd have to be right for me - but I'm not putting anything off of the table.
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Journalists and media outlets across the country have been weighing in on Roland Martin and publicly sharing their stances against language that encourages anti-LGBT violence, no matter what the context.
The National Association of Black Journalists, an organization of journalists, students and media-related professionals that provides quality programs and services to and advocates on behalf of black journalists worldwide, recently released a statement taking a stand against hate speech in any medium.
"This is a teachable moment for all journalists," said the statement, released in the name of NABJ President Gregory H. Lee Jr. "We are reminded that what we communicate in print and broadcast -- and now through social media -- has considerable power. NABJ does not support any commentary in any medium that is insensitive or offensive.
"Mr. Martin is one of our most committed members. In lieu of his presence on CNN, until this matter is resolved, we encourage the network to continue to present a diverse offering of voices in its programming," the statement concluded.
Political pundit Dr. Boyce Watkins wrote about the very real implications behind anti-gay language, even when said jokingly: "While 'stabbing your son' or 'beating the ish' out of someone for being gay might bring forth a chuckle or two, the joke isn't funny for those who must withstand the real threat of serious violence due to their sexual orientation."
Cultural critic dream hampton wrote on EBONY.com: "There are people reading this now wondering 'What violence?', as the threshold for violence is so high that even the idea of smacking 'the ish out of' someone hardly registers (in an ironic twist, Martin considers cursing offensive, hence the 'ish'). It's also worth noting that the timing of Martin's 'joke' is made even more troublesome as it was immediately followed by a viral video of a Black gay man being brutally beaten in Atlanta. As a community, we must continue to press for a culture free of hypocrisy and condemnation. And we have to press for sensitivity from our community leaders, within our churches and where ever there is gay bashing."
"If not because the comment itself was distasteful, than because a political commentator ought to know better than anyone how quickly an off-the-cuff remark can be your undoing," wrote theGrio contributor Michael Arceneaux. "One wonders why a person paid to offer analysis on the current political and social climate would even tempt fate with that kind of tweet, especially at a time when anti-gay violence has become a pervasive trend."
Many other journalists took to Twitter to spread a positive message:
In reference to Roland Martin's "real bruhs" tweet that prefaced his anti-gay comment ("Ain't no real bruhs going to H&M to buy some damn David Beckham underwear! "If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl."), cultural critic Toure (@Toure) tweeted, "Real brothers are not homophobic."
Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile), political strategist and syndicated columnist, posted on her timeline, "Let us all find common ground @GLAAD & @rolandsmartin will mend, meet, share, grow stronger, wiser and more determined to stop the hate." And earlier: "Upon departing campus, my inbox was full. The news about @rolandsmartin suspension from
#CNN forced me to pull over. Teachable moment y'all."
Later ESPN columnist/CNN contributor LZ Granderson retweeted Donna Brazile: "@Toure: Real brothers are not homophobic." May I add this: real sisters are tolerant and believes in equality for all."
After a series of LGBT-inclusive tweets about masculinity, New York Times columnist Charles Blow (@CharlesMBlow) tweeted about the power of words: "You may mean no harm with a joke about manliness, but all those jokes feed a culture, and at the fringes of that culture things can unravel."
And in response to one of his followers, CNBC contributor Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) tweeted, "Roland is a successful TV pundit; he'll be fine. It's the gay kids I'm worried about."
GLAAD looks forward to a healthy and productive dialogue with Roland Martin and members of the community.


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|Day Hike
Date Climbed: Jan 18, 2015
|I left the S-22 TH at 5:05 a.m., Villager next, the out along the bumpy ridge to Rabbit. I was back at Villager by three o'clock, head lamp on by 5:30. There was absolutely no moon, so crossing the desert floor in total darkness (except for the beam of the head lamp) was an adventure. Fortunately, I had a real compass and a gps, as the area is crisscrossed with washes and ravines. The weather was perfect. I'd do this one again.
|Posted Jan 20, 2015 1:57 pm
|From S22 via Villager
Date Climbed: Feb 23, 2013
|Infamous Rabbit taunts no more. Came back more determined than ever after turning around 3.5 years before. Rolled over Villager, then powered through the bump roller-coaster. After so much anticipation, the views at the summit sucked (obscured by vegetation). Back on the bump roller-coaster and the endless descent to S22. Redemption!
|Posted May 7, 2013 7:15 pm
|Rabbit and Villager
Date Climbed: Feb 17, 2012
|Great hike , buddy from work and I did a 2 day. Camped at villager and then hit rabbits. Lots of snow on top 3-4 inches a list with drifts a lot higher. Good thing since I ran low on water. 8 liters was not enough. I would bring 9-10 liters if I was not sure of snow.
|Posted Feb 19, 2012 9:46 pm
|Awesome hike!
Date Climbed: Mar 5, 2011
|Really cool hike, great views.. made it all the way to Rabbit!
|Posted Mar 17, 2011 4:31 am
Date Climbed: Mar 12, 2011
|Dayhike from S-22. Nice hike with a slightly cool breeze that kept the temperature perfect all day. Saw a large Sierra Club group (20-25 people) heading up while I was on the way down from Villager.
|Posted Mar 14, 2011 12:31 pm
|My first desert summit in 1977
|John Orange, George Ivy and I hiked up the long ridge of Rabbit from Salton Sea area in spring of 1977. Rabbit was my first desert summit ever. What an unusual terrain for someone who grew up among pine trees,alpine meadows and rock towers. For a while, I was not sure what the desert hiking experience was about, but many years of desert rambling followed.
|Posted Jan 24, 2011 1:18 pm
|Michael Graupe
|East-west traverse
Date Climbed: Dec 31, 2010
|Great New Year's Eve hike. Started from the citrus grove (Fillmore Ave) and just aimed for the bottom of the E-ridge. After ~45min picked up the ducked route where the white rocks are still in place. The ridge is steep and relentless and made for a great work-out with grand views all around. Temperature was way below freezing on top with rime ice covering trees and shrubs. Quickly traversed over to Villager and descended the south ridge to S-22. 9h 50min CTC.
|Posted Jan 4, 2011 5:55 pm
|South Ridge over Villager
Date Climbed: Dec 18, 2010
|Stormy day in the desert - but mostly dry on the ridge. Great hike.
|Posted Dec 20, 2010 1:10 pm
|Fom s22 over Villager
Date Climbed: Dec 4, 2010
|Except for complete lack of Moon, conditions were perfect; cool, slight overcast until the descent. As a dayhike took 11h15m; I was motivated to get back to the car before dark. Had a sprained ankle and groin pull to start, and miraculously, both conditions seemed alleviated by the time I hit Rabbit.
There are 7 little lumps between Villager and Rabbit; they aren't oppressive, but they are a bit annoying on the way back.
This must have been a brutal hike when first added to the DPS list. You can see where branches have been trimmed, and the faint use trail is carefully routed around the worst thickets with simple but effective ducks. Plus a fire has cleared a good expanse of brush. Someone even put reflective dots on some bushes.
|Posted Dec 5, 2010 6:28 pm
|Toro to Rabbit
|Actually haven't done this yet. I was hoping to do this early next spring from Toro to Rabbit to Villager and down to desert. I was wondering if anyone can tell me what the conditions are like between Toro and Rabbit (besides being hot and dry most of the time). Any thoughts
|Posted Jul 2, 2010 7:56 pm
|Via Villager Peak
Date Climbed: May 25, 2010
|What a great May Day! Temperature was perfect. Awesome views of Salton Sea!
|Posted May 26, 2010 5:08 am
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Mar 13, 2010
|Up the east ridge from the lemon grove. Thought it would be nice to summit a peak from below sea level. Very nice hike up the ridge but the 3+ miles across the boulders from the TH to reach the ridge is a drag- especially on the way back. I think via Villager may be the better route- as most seem to have already figured out...
|Posted Mar 14, 2010 9:26 pm
|kevin trieu
|from Villager
Date Climbed: Feb 25, 2010
|great hike in the Socal desert. came from Villager. 12.5 c2c.
|Posted Feb 28, 2010 8:44 pm
|A Great Oct Day
Date Climbed: Oct 24, 2009
|Doing this in two days would really be punishment. I carried about 200 oz for my day trip and that really wasn't enough on this day that reached the low 90s in Temp. Having to carry enough water for two days and a night would push that number much higher and thus add a lot of weight.
The roller coaster ridge was actually enjoyable because of the spectacular views of the dry (and should be dry... Salton) lake beds.
|Posted Oct 25, 2009 12:51 pm
|Via Villager
Date Climbed: Jan 31, 2009
|RIP little toenail.
|Posted Sep 17, 2009 6:06 pm
|Re: Via Villager
|I think 5696' is the NET gain/loss, total gain is over 8000'. The valley floor is at 1100' and Rabbit is 6600', and I believe there is almost 3000' of ups/downs along the way. Crazy with the wind.
|Posted Apr 17, 2009 11:54 pm
|Re: Via Villager
|yeah its definitely around 8500' cumulative gain!
|Posted May 22, 2009 7:38 pm
|From Villager
Date Climbed: Jan 31, 2009
|excellent hike. bumps on the way weren't too bad. loved the views
|Posted Feb 1, 2009 10:34 am
|Via Villager
Date Climbed: Jan 19, 2009
|Climbed with Marcus and Eric from the south, spending the night on Villager. Then Rabbit in the morning and back to the car by 4:30. My alt watch seemed a bit off, like 100ft short on Villager and Rabbit...but total feet climbed said 12k. Don't believe people who say it's 8500 total feet. This climb is a roller coaster.
|Posted Jan 20, 2009 11:24 am
|Almost made it
Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2009
|With Miguel Forjan. I was thinking it was the peak further to the north northwest. Thinking I would absolutly never make it, I turned back only to realize later (Miguel phoned me from Rabbit)that I really was 1/2 way to Rabbit and probably would of made it. Miguel did summit Rabbit. Still had another awesome day in the hills with a great friend.
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This Loft was great. Very spacious and well appointed. Nice quiet building easy check in. The kitchen was adequately equipped but bring your own shampoo and conditioner. The neighborhood had lots to offer and was really close to shopping and the U Ban. I highly recommend this place.
My experience with Windu was less than straightforward. The web site said your credit card would be billed upon check in. Not true, it was billed at the time of the booking. A notice after booking tells you of additional taxes that are assessed. I assumed this is what would be billed upon check-in but evidently one is suppose to leave cash behind to cover it. Attempts to resolve this with the owner were complicated by the web site which refused to send my messages because it would not recognize my phone number.
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Yahoo! (YHOO) today rose 25 cents, or 1%, to $22.95 after the stock received its second upgrade to Buy in 24 hours, from Cantor Fitzgerald's Youssef Squali, who raised his rating on the shares from Hold, and raised his prcie target to $26 from $21, writing that he now has a higher valuation on the company's minority interests in the Alibaba Group Holdings and Yahoo! Japan concerns.
Squali's report follows one yesterday by Barclays Capital's Anthony DiClemente with some similar thoughts as regards the non-consolidated properties.
Like DiClemente, Squali has a much higher revised estimate for Yahoo!'s Alibaba stake, perhaps as much as $16 billion:
On its 4Q:12 earnings call, Yahoo! valued its Alibaba stake at $8.1B, a valuation that's pegged to Alibaba's last capital raise in September 2012 (at ~$40B total). However, recently-disclosed Alibaba financial results in Yahoo!'s 10K (albeit incomplete) showing 74% and 111% growth in FY:12 revenue and operating income, respectively, support a materially higher valuation, in our view. We peg the new valuation at a range of $53-$79B; or ~$66B at the midpoint, implying $15.8B for Yahoo!'s 24% stake, or ~$8.40/share adjusted for taxes, vs. $5.10/ share previously.
Squali thinks growth rates will remain high, even as they cool from last year's rate:
Obviously, Alibaba Group disclosures are very narrow, incomplete, and backward looking, making it very difficult to forecast future growth and margins with any kind of accuracy. That said, we've attempted to use historical growth and margin trend lines to predict future performance, and as such, we've modeled for decelerating revenue growth of 61.1% and 50.4% in FY:13 and FY:14 (from 74% in FY:12), and slightly improving margins of 28.5% and 30.4% in FY:13 and FY:14 (from 26.8% in FY:12), respectively.
An Alibaba IPO will likely come in 2014, he writes:
In the meantime, we believe investors will continue to benefit from Yahoo!'s remaining 24% stake in Alibaba, and will essentially be paid to wait (in the form of growth in Alibaba until the IPO). Yahoo announced a staged exit from its Alibaba holdings in May 2012, with stage one being a 50% stake sale to Alibaba (completed in September 2012 for $7.1B in consideration – $6.3B in cash and $800M in preference shares), stage two being a 25% stake sale in Alibaba's IPO, and stage three consisting of future sales at Yahoo!'s discretion.
The Y! Japan stake has increased as well:
Since 12/31/2012, Yahoo! saw its stake in YJ increase to $8.6B from $6.6B, following a ~36% jump in YJ share price YTD. Adjusted for taxes, this stake translates into $5.2B, or $4.50/share, for Yahoo! vs. $3.20/share previously.
He notes that he is not assuming "a material improvement in core Yahoo! any time soon."
Squali raised his estimate for this year to $4.64 billion from a prior $4.61 billion. He maintains an EPS estimate of $1.02.


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| In the scene in which Rose goes looking through the corridors of the sinking ship for Jack, the water used in the scene was from the Pacific Ocean. The water was so frigid that when Rose gasps upon diving into the water, it was the actress's genuine reaction to the ocean water. Kate Winslet was one of the few actors who didn't want to wear a wetsuit while filming these scenes, and after this, she came down with pneumonia.
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| On August 9, 1996, around 80 crew members became ill after eating a batch of lobster chowder while filming in Nova Scotia. Police originally thought it was food poisoning, but when those who became sick started to complain of hallucinations, they took a closer look. Tests on the food came back positive for the drug phencyclidine, also known as PCP. The prankster was never caught, and none of the film's stars ate the drug-laced chowder.
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| Could you imagine a "Titanic" where Jack wasn't played by Leonardo DiCaprio? We didn't think so, but producers of the 1997 film did. James Cameron pushed for Leonardo DiCaprio to take the pivotal role, but the film's producers wanted another leading man—Matthew McConaughey. Yes, the Matthew McConaughey. We can't quite imagine Rose being wooed by the strong accent of the Texas native.
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| Before Enya's crooning was tainted by the torture scene in "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Cameron wanted the Irish singer to compose the score for "Titanic." He even went so far as to edit her existing music to fit a rough draft of the film. When she turned it down, Cameron turned to James Horner to produce the iconic soundtrack.
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| Kate and Leo had never met each other before the set of "Titanic." To break the ice, Winslet did something drastic in an attempt to ease the tension for her inevitable nude scene—she flashed him.
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| Gloria Stuart, the actress who played the elderly Rose Dawson, was the only person who worked on the production of the film who was actually living in 1912, the year when the "Titanic" sank. She even received an Oscar nomination for her role, which, at age 87, made her the oldest actor to receive a nomination. In September 2010, Stuart passed away at the exceptional age of 100.
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| Jack's character is an artist who totes a sketchbook filled with inspired drawings and passionately sketched nudes. But Leo wasn't the mastermind behind the iconic figures; it was Cameron himself who drew everything in the book—including the infamous portrait of Rose wearing nothing but a bejeweled necklace.
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By Tiernan Ray
Following a better-than-expected fiscal Q1 report last week by wireless chip vendor RF Micro Devices (RFMD) last week, Barclays's Blayne Curtis nevertheless cuts the stock to Equal Weight from Overweight, and cuts his price target to $5 from $7, writing that the "catalysts" for the stock he foresaw "have largely played out."
Those catalysts had included gains by RF Micro at Samsung Electronics (005930KS) and Apple (AAPL). Curtis also reiterates an Equal Weight rating on shares of Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) and cuts his target to $20 from $24.
"We do believe RFMD has executed well but we now see more risk to estimates than upside and believe investors will be unwilling to assign a premium multiple given the uncertainty in the mobile market," writes Curtis.
With areas of the smartphone market still facing downward pressure in unit shipment estimates, a lot seems to hang on Apple's introduction of an iPhone "5S" this fall:
Samsung just saw a large correction in GS3/4 and Note 2/3 builds (down 50%+ from March to Sept), so the high-end group at Samsung likely has less risk for a correction into Q4; however, we believe mid/low-range smartphones still have more room to correct and represent a risk to SWKS, RFMD and Broadcom (BRCM). There is risk that China sees a correction after seeing a very robust C2Q. Certain companies in the supply chain (RFMD) are baking in a down Sept where SWKS is baking in growth. This then places a major emphasis on the success of the IP5S refresh cycle.
Curtis goes further and thinks that the next version of the iPhone after the 5S, an "iPhone 6," could actually cut the amount of amplifier chips, which would not be good for RF Micro and others:
While it may seem early to think about the AAPL IP6 with the IP5S not yet released (est. Sept/Oct '13 launch), we believe the IP6 moves to a multi-mode PA (MMPA) architecture similar to the Samsung GS4. The shift toward an MMPA architecture is a rational move by OEMs to reduce the overall RF BOM (AAPL increasingly focused on reducing semi BOM and pressuring vendor margins). Given this, we see the potential for the IP5S to have peak content as it stayed discrete yet likely added 3-4 additional LTE bands. AAPL is still the largest driver for the RF market given there is 3-4x the amount of RF content per phone.
The one stock that Curtis seems positive about in the group is Avago Technologies (AVGO), with the company having "very little China exposure" and a larger business at Apple than at Samsung.
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At the Drink Local Wine Twitter Taste Off in Northern Virginia in 2010 we were enjoying cabernet franc, petite manseng, Norton, even albarino in a hotel ballroom when a small crowd gathered just outside the main hall.
The Virginia wine industry folks generously allowed their neighbors to the north, east and west – Maryland — to set up a table in the hallway. Word quickly spread of some of the memorable wines being poured there from Maryland producer. Wines from Black Ankle Vineyards, among others, stood out.
I've long been a fan of the wines of Mike Fiore, and of Mike Fiore himself. Every conversation eventually included "When I was a boy in Italy…" and some fantastic, wonderful tale. Boordy Vineyards was a pioneer in the U.S. industry, among eastern wineries, and of French American hybrid grapes which continue to create distinctive, unique regional wines.
In a tasting at the American Wine Society conference in Rochester in 2011 pitted top wines of New Jersey and Maryland, a chambourcin from Knob Hall Winery was judged not just the better chambourcin, but the best wine of the tasting. It was Knob Hall's first vintage. I used that chambourcin in "Regional Wines to Try Before You Die" presentations I did for three AWS Chapters.
Those wines, and a few others Maryland wines I've tried here and there, represent the extent of my knowledge of the industry of my southern neighbors. Wedged between Pennsylvania and Virginia, I like to image the wines will combine the best of both those states. The Drink Local Wine Conference offers an immersion into a state's wine industry.
I'm looking forward to visiting wineries, trying Maryland wines with local food, the walk-around Twitter Taste off at the historic Camden Yards, and being around others who appreciate and understand wines east of the Rocky Mountains.
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Taking this born-from-motorsports technology, STILLEN Engineers utilize AP Racing Rotors and the new AP Racing Forged Radi-CAL 6-piston calipers for the front and 4-piston calipers in the rear to develop these new brake kits designed specifically for the 06-10 Infiniti M35 & M45 Sedans. All of the mounting hats and brackets are designed and made in-house at STILLEN's machine shop, using the latest technology in CNC Lathe and Mill machining. Caliper configuration, pad selection and proper rotor sizing are all chosen for the M-Series to produce maximum braking performance, with a striking look no enthusiast could miss.
Everything needed for easy installation is in the box to install the STILLEN manufactured AP Racing Infiniti M35/M45 Radi-CAL Big Brake Kit:
- AP-Racing Radi-CAL Forged Calipers (available in Red or Black)
- AP Racing High Performance Rotors (available in J-Hook or Cross-Drilled/Slotted patterns)
- High Performance Brake Pads
- Billet Aluminum Rotor Mounting Hats and Full-Floating Hardware (pre-assembled for easy installation)
- Braided Stainless Steel Brake Lines with Correct Conversion Fittings
- Complete Installation Instructions
Welcome to the best brake kit upgrade system available for the Infiniti M-Series Sedan... the AP Racing Radi-CAL Brake Kit by STILLEN.
For more information on the AP Racing Infiniti M35 brake kit and AP Racing M45 big brake kit, please visit our AP Racing Radi-CAL by STILLEN brake kit informational page by clicking here.
About AP Racing Parts & Accessories
For over 50 years, AP Racing has had one aim - to create winners on the race track. The world of motorsport has changed out of all recognition since those early days and AP Racing have spearheaded every major development in brake and clutch technology. In Grand Prix Racing our success started with the incredible Auto Unions and has continued uninterrupted ever since to the championship winning Williams, McLarens, Renaults, and Ferraris. Over the years this success has been repeated in all other types of Single Seaters including Champ Cars, Indy Racing League, Indy Lights, GP2, F3000, F3 etc. At the end of the 2011 season AP Racing had notched up an incredible 686 GP wins for cars using its Brakes and/or Clutches and are confident of increasing this tally in 2012. At the pinnacle of motor sport, numerous factors dictate the most specialized requirements for ultimate success. From the state of the art 3 dimensional solid modelling/design and Finite Element Analysis CAD facilities, to sophisticated research, development and testing including special dynamometers that simulate true racing speeds, AP Racing is constantly probing the boundaries of technology. From state of the art measuring centers, CNC machining and sophisticated stock control systems, to the intricate hand assembly, checking and testing of individual assemblies, AP Racing ensures its products perform when pushed to the absolute limits.
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