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- ELIES Homes
- Kalymnos Island
- A brief presentation of Kalymnos
- Climbing
- Explore Kalymnos Island (map)
- Points of Interest on Kalymnos Island
- Locations
- Beaches of Kalymnos
- Bus Stops & Taxi Stations
- Moving around Kalymnos
- Public Services at Kalymnos
- Sightseeing on Kalymnos
- Sports on Kalymnos
- Products, food and drinks of Kalymnos
- The Diving Heritage of Kalymnos Island
- Travel to Kalymnos
- Scuba Diving
- Prices & Offers
- Yoga
- Contact
ELIES Homes is the former Hotel ELIES.
ELIES Homes used to be a 3 star hotel for many years.
People know it as Hotel ELIES and still refer to it like this. Even on this website you might find the title Hotel ELIES.
Please ask for the former Hotel ELIES, if locals don't know where ELIES Homes are. And keep in mind that it is not a hotel anymore.


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Events Around the World
Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake (2009-2017)
"Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake, 2009-2017" presents a groundbreaking project by Chang, a uniquely important artist who emerged from New York's alternative art scene of the mid-1990s. From her tough-to-take, boundary-busting performance-video work that explored the complex psychic narrative behind often visceral solo performances, to more recent experimental films and lecture-performances, Chang has challenged the parameters of performance and its power as a storytelling vehicle. The Queens Museum will present her most ambitious work to date, "The Wandering Lake (2009-2017)", a project that redefines the role of artist, image, object and performance in the construction of narratives through an exhibition that integrates video projection, photography, sculpture, publication, and performance as one expansive body of work. This exhibition is part of Asia Contemporary Art Week, October 5-26 in New York City.
Patty Chang received an ACC Fellowship in 2010 to carry out research and creative work in Laos.
Grantee: Patty Chang
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Clouds⇄Forests is a proposition at a time of crisis to instigate the establishment of new relationships in our world. This proposition will be proposed by the artists and creators called "Creative Tribes", who gather in different sites all over the world, do not feel restricted to the notion of nation state and also surmount the dichotomy between globalism and localism.
Clouds⇄Forests focuses on artists as a creative tribe transitioning, expanding and dissipating, from forest to cloud, rebuilding the subjectivity of spectators and showing that creativity is vital to the creation of new environmental spheres. Taking into account perceptions on the generation of new subjective environmental spheres, the curatorial criteria for this exhibition includes giving life to new technologies as well as exploring ways to obtain animistic artistic languages and connect cultural roots, and leveraging the rhizome-based organic system to traverse history, genres, and media.
ACC grantee Yuko Hasegawa is curating the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary, and ACC grantees Nadim Abbas from Hong Kong and Nindityo Adipurnomo from Indonesia are participating artists.
Grantees: Abbas Nadim, Nindityo Adipurnomo, Hasegawa Yuko
A Doll's House, Part 2
The play A Doll's House, part 2, picks up after Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House concludes and explores, in uproarious fashion, the emotional chaos that results when Nora Helmer returns to the home from which she exited fifteen years earlier.
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, W Magazine and Time Out New York all call A Doll's House, Part 2 "the best play of the Broadway season."
A Doll's House, Part 2 is written by Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold with lighting design by Jennifer Tipton. Jesse Green of The New York Times raves, "The best play of the year. I love A Doll's House, Part 2. This is a great comedy." Peter Marks of The Washington Post cheers, "I want do nothing but talk about A Doll's House, Part 2 for the rest of my life."
Grantee: Jennifer Tipton
Enrico Isamu Ōyama represents a contemporary generation with a distinctly global perspective. Child of an Italian father and a Japanese mother, Ōyama was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, but also lived for extended periods in North Italy. In Tokyo, he immersed himself in an underground art scene infused with the street culture of the city and its global influences.
"Ubiquitous" surveys how Ōyama channeled his interests in the street cultures of Tokyo and American cities, Western abstract art, and Japanese calligraphy to create Quick Turn Structure (QTS), his signature expression. Through the QTS, Ōyama gives visual form to the mixed-race, multicultural, transnational experiences of people in today's world of fluid borders and interconnectivity.
Enrico Isamu Ōyama received an ACC Fellowship in 2011 to research contemporary art, meet artists and curators, and create new work while participating in an artist residency program in the United States.
Grantee: Enrico Isamu Oyama
Cai Guo-Qiang: October
In September 2017, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts will present leading international contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang's first solo exhibition in Russia: Cai Guo-Qiang: October. A reflection on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the ambitious body of work originally created for the exhibition will transform the main exhibition areas of the museum.
The exhibition is a comprehensive introduction of the artist's diverse yet distinctive practice to the Russian art world and local audiences. Artworks include large-scale outdoor and indoor installations, gunpowder paintings, a multi-media video installation, and small-scale sculptures and sketches.
Cai Guo-Qiang received an ACC Fellowship in 1995 for an artist residency at the International Studio Program at the Institute of Contemporary Art, P.S. 1, in New York.
Grantee: Cai Guo-Qiang
Perpetual Uncertainty
Perpetual Uncertainty / Contemporary Art in the Nuclear Anthropocene brings together artists from Europe, Japan, the US and Australia to investigate experiences of nuclear technology, radiation and the complex relationship between knowledge and the deep time.
Erika Kobayashi (ACC 2007) and Kota Takeuchi (ACC 2017) are participating artists in the exhbition and both received ACC fellowships for research in the United States.
Grantees: Kobayashi Erika, Takeuchi Kota
The Serenity of Madness
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness is a traveling exhibition curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. This new solo exhibition uniquely presents a selected survey of rarely-seen experimental short films and video installations by Weerasethakul, alongside his photography, sketches, and archival materials that explore threads of socio-political commentary which has continually guided his practice. His passionate positions regarding class, labor, sexuality, and spirituality paint a portrait of an artist concerned with ethics, power, science, and liberation in equal measures.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Gridthiya Gaweewong both received ACC Fellowships, in 2004 and 2002 respectively, for creative research.
Grantees: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Gridthiya Gaweewong
The Given Order
ACC grantee Anton del Castillo opens "The Given Order" with Jason Dy, S.J. The exhibit, curated by Ricky Francisco, offers a visual exploration of the different tangents of faith and tradition in our past and present lives. Religion as agent of social order and transformation is looked into by Fr. Dy, who uses art in conjunction with the spiritual life of communities he is connected with. While del Castillo's works engage with the anxieties and violence in the perception and experience of the individual and collective faith.
Anton del Castillo received his ACC Philippine Fellowship in 2006 to observe contemporary art activities and undertake research on Byzantine icon paintings in American collections.
Grantee: Julius Anton del Castillo
Coming of Age
The libidinal flux of the teenager has left a permanent mark on culture, normalizing radical consumption in service of an endless will to change. With the end of earth's resources in sight, this paradigm needs revision. Coming of Age presents the work of seven artists from different parts of the world that subvert our material and cultural landscape with meditative gestures. Whether looking at Takahiro Iwasaki transforming a toothbrush into the site of an electric pylon, Aki Inomata's alternative housing for hermit crabs that recall a sense of itineracy, Essi Kausalainen's table top performance, or Ebony G. Patterson's coffin procession, these works acknowledge a predominant state of violence while calling for a greater optimism. Rebecca Beachy inserts a taxidermied bird into the gallery walls as a time capsule-cum-relic. Tsherin Sherpa uses traditional Thangka painting techniques to swirl subjects in a reflection of instability, and Rhonda Holberton presents a virtual desert, recalling the ambiguous possibilities of digital space and its impact on daily life. Coming of Age torques scale, technology, and location in search of sustainable agency and repair.
Visual artist Aki Inomata, from Japan, received an ACC Fellowship to observe contemporary art activities and participate in an artist residency program in the United States.
Grantee: Inomata Aki
Constellation: Contemporary Art in Today's China
This exhibition is a major symbolic event representative of the emergent Chinese avant-garde artists who influence the art scene in China today. This generation of artists no longer relies on the political history background and they have become the players of a larger scene, global in every sense. It shows an understanding of Chinese art as a vital and outstanding way of dealing with political, social and aesthetic issues. Curated by Ami Barak. Out of the 18 artists exhibiting, 4 are ACC grantees.
Grantees: Ma Qiusha, Li Shurui, Wang Sishun, Liu Wei
2017 Mipaliw Wetland Art Festival
After a month-long residency, 9 local and 2 international artists work with communities in Shitiping and Fuxing to create installations along Taiwan's East Coast in Fengbin Township.
In 2010, the Forestry Bureau started a wetland ecology preservation project in Fengbin to revive the contour rice paddies. The community in Fengbin collaborated with the Hualien Forest Bureau to rebuild the irrigation system. Water flowed into the rice paddies once again, and rice grew along the shore of the Pacific Ocean.
While the landscape and crops had been restored in Shitiping, the first sets of questions challenging the local people were how could they reclaim their social and cultural structure and value? To address this, the Mipaliw Wetland Art Festivals began in 2011.
Grantee: Dungi Sumi
Open Threads
"Open Threads" at TOPAZ ARTS features textile-based work by two artists, The GedAze Project, traversing a lineage of contemporary artists pushing the boundaries of textile. Together, both artists have a common thread – from materials and process, to their interest in engaging viewers to interact with the work – the tactility, both a reflection and reminder of familiar objects, and the stories bound within.
Philippine artists Ged Merino and Aze Ong have been engaging in a series of collaborations named The GedAze Project. TOPAZ ARTS provided a Summer Residency for the artists to create new work both individually and collaboratively." Open Threads" is the culminating exhibition and is their fifth collaborative show.
Aze Ong, a visual and performance artist from the Philippines, is currently on her 6-month ACC Fellowship researching contemporary art practices and meet artists and curators in the United States.
Grantee: Aze Ong
Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now
This exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) by showcasing the contemporary art of the region and aims to be one of the largest Southeast Asian contemporary art exhibitions in history. The exhibition consists of 80 artworks by 86 artist groups from 10 ASEAN member countries and will be held simultaneously at 2 museums: National Art Center and Mori Art Museum. 19 ACC grantees are participating in this exhibition!
Grantees: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Aye Ko, Ly Daravuth, Le Dinh Q., Gridthiya Gaweewong, Tran Luong, Lyra Teresa Abueg Garcellano, Mella Jaarsma, Montien Boonma, Navin Rawanchaikul, Ismail Roslisham, Sutthirat Supaparinya, Tiffany Chung, Uthit Atimana, Vasan Sitthiket, Htein Lin, Lee Wen, Roberto R. Chabet
Unwanted Population
Tiffany Chung is an internationally-acclaimed contemporary artist whose work examines conflict, migration, urban development, and transformation in relation to history and cultural memory. Her practice, which utilizes extensive research and interviews, explores geographic shifts in countries that were traumatized by war, human destruction, or natural disaster. Tiffany is known for her installations and map-based drawings which layer different periods in the histories of devastated topographies, reflecting the impossibility of creating accurate cartographic representations of most places.
While on her ACC Fellowship in 2015, Tiffany journeyed to former Vietnamese refugee camps in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia to research the history of the mass exodus of refugees from Vietnam. Using her research, she developed "the unwanted population," a project combining her ongoing studies tracking the current Syrian humanitarian crisis with her in-depth study of the Vietnam mass exodus.
Grantee: Tiffany Chung
Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition
Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition will take place at Kyoto Art Center and Nijo Castle and includes work by 25 internationally renowned artists from Japan, China and South Korea. 7 of the aratist are ACC grantees.
This exhibition will allow visitors to experience the quality and intensity of contemporary art in the cultural city of Kyoto with work by artists that pioneer new frontiers and transcend national identities through the universal approaches of art.
Grantees: Miyanaga Aiko, Yang Fudong, Cai Guo-Qiang, Yanagi Miwa, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Lu Yang, Kusama Yayoi
Deep White
The exhibition includes Li Shurui's latest project Deep White, a new series of Wave painting-installations, as well as a new development of the Mindfile Storage Unit series of painting-installations. In recent years, Li has further developed her methodology; her configuring of color systems and layering of multiple trajectories of color now have the distinctive effect of creating chord sequences. On the other hand, Wave and Mindfile Storage Unit are the result of the artist's continued interest in the formal aspect of religious architecture. With waves and spheric forms, Li depicts the amorphousness of consciousness to bring about resonance in and immerse the viewer.
Li Shurui received an ACC fellowship in 2015 for a residency program in New York.
Grantee: Li Shurui
Asian Diva: The Muse and the Monster
This exhibition explores the transformation of Asian popular culture during the 1960s and 1970s, a time when rapid economic development had the continent under its spell. As male actors were writing this history, the lives and voices of real women were being obscured by sociopolitical smokescreens, postcolonial experiences of the Cold War, and dictatorship. Many women shared similar experiences, regardless of location, during this period of rapid urbanization and economic growth. Here, the exhibition presents a comprehensive look at their forgotten discourse through a prism of Asian diva songs and popular cultural signals documented along trajectories inked in postcolonial modernity.
Grantees: Arahmaiani Feisal, Le Dinh Q., Shimada Yoshiko
Memories Interwoven and Overlapped: Post-Martial Law Era Ink Painting in Taiwan
"Memories Interwoven and Overlapped: Post-Martial Law Era Ink Painting in Taiwan" features works of diverse categories and media, including ink and wash painting, meticulous heavy color painting, gouache painting, installation, video, and animation; in terms of style and expression, all the works manifest artists' realizations and sentiments of life, social and cultural concerns, dialectics on history and reality, and the depth and breadth of ink art exploration, exhibiting vibrant creative energy and dynamics. Through interpretation of and dialogues with exciting works of 24 artists from different generations, this exhibition aims to investigate the intertwined relation between Taiwanese ink painting and politics, and present artists' diverse creative visions inspired by overlapped and interwoven historical memories, as well as the splendid and exciting new look of ink art constructed on such visions, concretely, and in details, presenting and explaining the course of development of Taiwanese ink painting from the lifting of martial law up to the present time.
Vocalisations: A Soundscape in Greenbelt Park
Vocalisations - a performance of vocal actions, reactions, and interactions between man, nature and space, in a constantly changing environment - uses sound art to promote awareness of the auditory element of the environment, an aspect that is often overlooked in a world where what can be seen is given more privileges than what can be heard.
Teresa received her Philippine fellowship grant in 2014 to observe and research current practices, processes, innovations, and philosophies in music and sound art in the United States.
Grantee: Teresa Barrozo

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Disaster recovery: Ad hoc and expensive
Users at Gartner's storage show in Orlando admit that their disaster recovery plans are unrehearsed and too expensive.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Just two users in a room of about 300 people attending Gartner Inc.'s storage show this week raised their hands when asked: who performs change control testing as part of their disaster recovery (DR) plan?
"You two get best in class," said Donna Scott, vice president and analyst at Gartner. "The rest of you, see me after class," she joked.
Most users in the crowd said they test their disaster recovery plans once a year. In an electronic poll of the audience, 44% said DR was still a project within their company, 30% said it was a process, and only 6% said it was integrated with business objectives.
Scott went through the list of architectures for disaster recovery, including application-level replication, database log-based replication, storage controller-based replication (synchronous vs. asynchronous), host-based file and volume replication, and outlined the pros and cons of each approach. She also mentioned some emerging technologies, such as network-based replication, from companies like Topio Inc., Kashya Inc. (now owned by EMC Corp.), FalconStor Software Inc., DataCore Software Corp., StoreAge Technologies and IBM's SAN Volume Controller.
The majority of the audience said they were using host-based file and volume replication. Scott said she was "surprised" by the number of people doing application-level DR. "You have to be very systematic in your approach with that method.
Most companies interviewed after the session seemed to be struggling in one way or another with DR.
A spokesman for a medical equipment supplier in Minneapolis, who requested anonymity, said his firm hadn't had that "burning bridge" to nudge them into implementing DR yet. "We're still at step one, which is to build a true enterprise-class data center, then we can get a second site," he said. The firm is currently moving out of an old facility that's at 95% utilization for power and floor space.
Harry Quoc Hoang, engineering manager for Helio Solutions, a storage reseller, said that not many people are asking for DR "because of budget issues." For a lot of companies he talks to, DR is still "a luxury" they can't afford, he said.
Media General Inc., owners of the Tampa Tribune and WFLA TV station, would, in an ideal world, outsource its disaster recovery operation to a co-location facility, according to Mark Holt, a spokesman for the company's IT Group. "I like the Google idea of unlimited storage that you rent at a co-lo facility," he said. Today Media General has multiple levels of DR depending on the application. For example, Exchange has its own application-level recovery on disk, which the firm is spending "a lot of money on," while file servers use tape backup, according to Holt. "The calculation is done by whether the application is valuable enough for us to spend money on," he said.
Proximus Belgacom Mobile, a telecom provider in Brussels, is also looking to save money on its DR plan. The company uses Hitachi Data Systems Inc. storage and TrueCopy software to replicate between two data centers. "From a storage management perspective, controller-based replication is easy," said Wim Vanhoof, manager of storage systems at Proximus. "But it's expensive, and where it's not needed, we're looking to get off it."
BAE Systems is another company trying to establish a DR plan but is finding that security issues are a sticking point thus far. In replicating from site to site "we have issues over who can see the data," said John Volanski, hardware systems manager at BAE. "With cross replication [between sites], there are multiple levels of security, and I don't think just zoning is the answer." BAE uses IBM DS4500 storage and is looking at SAN Volume Controller to replicate between sites.
And then there are folks simply trying to get it to work. The World Bank Group uses operating system-level mirroring on IBM AIX, which "doesn't work as well as it should," according to a storage expert at the bank. If the company reboots a switch, it breaks the operating system-level mirroring on AIX. "This is not a niche technology, we're not asking for something major, it should be bulletproof," the user said. Gartner's Scott agreed and offered to elevate the problem with IBM on behalf of the user. "Vendors don't like it when we analysts know about this stuff -- they tend to respond faster," she said.
Scott offered some recommendations at the end of the session:
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I like to occasionally peruse Henry's wonderful list of principles that make aikido work. Lately I've been working my way through this list, blogging about my thoughts on each one, and I've worked my way up to #3
Nothing Ever Works
Also occasionally stated as, "I wouldn't bet my life on THAT!"
All martial arts have assumptions and presuppositions. Axioms that they use as starting points. One of our most foundational assumptions in aikido is that it is near-useless to rely on strength and speed to get things done because (again, we assume) the bad guy is always bigger, tougher, stronger, faster, and more clued-in to the circumstances of the attack. This assumption makes sense because weaker, slower, smaller folks don't usually try to victimize more powerful people. So, it's not too bad a starting point to assume that you're always going to be the underdog.
Being the underdog means that Nothing Ever Works. Any time you try strength, he's stronger. Any time you try speed, he's faster. Any time you use your skills, he's more skilled.
This means that you have to build your martial art based on strategies that do not require abnormal amounts of strength, speed, or skill to work. Your techniques have to be robust and fail-soft, and everything has to have a back-up plan. If you have the co-ordination and athletic skill that it takes to stand up and balance and walk around at a fast walking pace, then you have enough athleticism to make aikido work. If you are strong enough to push or pull a heavy door open, then you have enough strength. And by the time you get to about green belt (around 60 mat hours) you have just about all the knowledge and skill that you need to make aikido work pretty good.
It's a crazy sort of near-paradox.
Aikido works because we start out with the assumption that nothing we do will ever work.
It's crazy, but it works.
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Two years ago, I was in State College for Halloween. That was the year of my "Every Freakin Girl on Campus" costume, when I walked around Penn State with angel wings, cat ears, and a pitch fork. Not to mention the t-shirt that read, "Every freaking girl on campus."
Last year, I ended up in a motel in Louisiana. You know, the kind of motel where killers get rooms. Which is great, because the limited cable always seems to have a movie where someone gets killed in a motel. But when I heard a loud knock at my door, it was not a murderer. Just a kid in a costume and a woman on a campaign for the worst mother of the year award. No one unwilling to spend $10 extra to stay in a place without cigarette stains in the tub keeps their broken bureau drawer stocked with candy. Spring for a cab and take the kid somewhere he won't get killed. And somewhere people distributing treats are more prevalent than those turning tricks.
This Halloween, I was in Los Angeles, and I intended to stock my apartment with chocolate. Of course I forgot to buy any, which didn't turn out so bad since I didn't get a single trick-or-treater. I live in West Hollywood, an area that is a fusion of out-of-work actors, flamboyantly gay men, and flamboyantly gay out of work actors. I'm not sure if I had no visitors because my neighborhood doesn't have many kids or because parents knew none of us were likely to have candy. Or because everyone was busy trick-or-treating in Shreveport.
It was also the first Halloween night that I performed. I did stand-up at a bar in Universal Studios, where tons of people came in costume and it was coincidentally Halloween. People play dress-up daily in LA, so Halloween is just an excuse to get a little fancier. It's like wearing a tux to work in a nice office. Sure, it's a little out of place. But it doesn't stand out as much when the rest of the world is wearing tuxes to Walmart.
Some of the costumes were good, but most were downright ridiculous. So I'd like to start what could be an annual thing reviewing the costumes of people much more into Halloween than I am.
Sexy Mundane Job Girl:
Take a Home Depot smock or a McDonalds shirt, make a few cuts, and poof you have a great way to tell your parents that they should be expecting a grandkid in a few months. You know, a few days after the wedding.
Guy Dressed as The Crow:
Oh, you're so dark and disturbed that you came dressed as a character from a movie that most people forgot about. You dress as The Crow on November 15th, I'll give you dark and disturbed. On Halloween, you're just a guy who owns black pants.
Girl Who Just Wears a Bra:
You couldn't come up with a way to be Sexy Mundane Job Girl, so you're just Sexy Mundane Girl. Good for you, you have a flat stomach. It must make up for your complete lack of personality.
Guy Who Shows Up With Girl Who Just Wears a Bra:
I have to hand it to you, you have guts. Going to a party or a bar with your girlfriend dressed like that is like driving a Mercedes into Compton, tossing the keys on the hood, and standing around to see what happens. "Go ahead, man, take it. See what I do."
Girl Who Doesn't Dress Up, and Then Wishes She Did To Fit In
So you decided to be bold this year and buck the costume trend, until you saw how much fun your friends were having. And then you buckled and made one up as if you planned it the whole time. "I'm dressed as a, um, uh, um, sad sad girl with no conviction of character." Yes. Yes you are.
Guy Who No One Knows What the Heck He Is:
You throw on a bathrobe and penny loafers and you get upset when no one can figure out your costume. I saw a guy dressed like this and the only guess I had was that he came as a (language edited to allow column to run in family newspapers) head.
Girl Who Buys a Pre-Made Costume:
It's not creative to come as Rainbow Brite if you thought of it at a costume sale. You bought the outfit, so what are the odds that you're the only one? If you think showing up in the same dress to a party is bad, try having it be blue satin and accompanied with a red wig. "No, of course I'm not Rainbow Brite, too. I'm, um, Hooker Annie."
Guy Who Takes Delight in Mocking Others Instead of Dressing Up:
That guy is awesome.
Steve Hofstetter is the author of the Student Body Shots books, which are available at SteveHofstetter.com and bookstores everywhere. He can be e-mailed at email@example.com.
Two years ago, I was in State College for Halloween. That was the year of my "Every Freakin Girl on Campus" costume, when I walked around Penn State with angel wings, cat ears, and a pitch fork. Not to mention the t-shirt that read, "Every freaking girl on campus."


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Noam Levine, MathWorks
Robin Getz, Analog Devices
Luc Langlois, Avnet Electronics Marketing
Join engineers from MathWorks, Analog Devices, and Avnet who will show a single hardware/software development and deployment environment for Software-Defined Radio. Using MATLAB® and Simulink®, users can go from designing and simulating communications algorithms to generating production implementations targeting the Xilinx® Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC and Analog Devices AD9361 RF Agile Transceiver™.
During our presentation, we will demonstrate how to:
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Protecting Your Rights
The City of Seattle is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender identity, or political ideology, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, and local laws. To learn more about federal and state laws that protect your rights click on the links below:
Equal Opportunity Employment is the Lawhttp://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Acthttp://dol.gov/vets/programs/userra/userra_private.pdf#non-federal
Employment Polygraph Protection Acthttp://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/eppac.pdf
Family Medical Leave Act of 1993http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmlaen.pdf
Washington State Law Prohibits Discrimination in Employmenthttp://www.hum.wa.gov/documents/Brochures/EMPFLIER082906B.pdf
Job Safety and Health Lawhttp://www.lni.wa.gov/IPUB/416-081-909.pdf
Your Rights as a Workerhttp://www.lni.wa.gov/IPUB/700-074-909.pdf
Notice to Employees - If a Job Injury Occurshttp://www.lni.wa.gov/IPUB/242-191-909.pdf
Unemployment Benefits posterhttp://www.esd.wa.gov/uitax/formsandpubs/unemployment-benefits-poster.pdf


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Keep Montana
tell everyone that...
Now go home and tell all your friends!
Together we can prevent people (a.k.a. tourists) from discovering OUR Montana! Get the t-shirt that will turn heads in any state. Hey, nothing is worse than a few million more tourists invading our beautiful state, so do your part to send them somewhere else! Get the shirt that tells 'em where to go... anywhere but here!
Montanans unite!
Our "Treasure State" is under assault by tourists.
It is not by accident that Montana is called "the last best place",
and we must ensure that it remains that way. We need to eliminate
the rumors that Montana is beautiful, and fun place to visit - or worse
yet, live here. Together, we need to spread the word that
"Montana Sucks"
and encourage people to visit other states like Alabama or New Jersey.
Imagine what happens when some nerd from National Geographic magazine flies in and takes photos of Glacier National Park and Flathead Lake, or films an account of Montana's bears or fly fishing the North Fork river and whitewater rafting... picture the following event happening all over the U.S.of A...
The Simpson family in south Texas watches a TV special about Montana and Bert decides that for next summer's vacation they're going to take a second mortgage on the trailer, buy a camper and tow it around Montana. Now multiply that scenario by a factor of ten-thousand - and next summer Montana suffers an invasion of tourists from the lower 48. Why it's enough to make your blood boil; we Montanans have no where to go to escape these invading tourists I mean, what are we supposed to do... visit California? P-L-E-A-S-E!
What we can do
IMHO, there are only two ways to keep tourists away - and make certain they tow their campers someplace else. One, we can shoot holes in their Winnebagos as they cross the state line, but that would use a lot of our beer money for ammo. The better option is to create a rumor that there is nothing to see - and zilch to do in Montana - don't waste your money visiting here because "MONTANA SUCKS".
Action plan
If there is one thing we can thank the funny talking
northeast Yankees for it's Madison Avenue advertising. Those suits know
how to reach the masses and their secret is "T-shirts". Yup, you
read that right, t-shirts. Think about it, Harley-Davidson's dealers
only sold 12,043 motorcycles last year, but they sold 16,894,221
t-shirts emblazoned with pigs and motorcycles and HD's dated logo on the
front. Now, every wannabe in America believes that a Harley is the
answer to everything from boredom to getting some strange.
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Gee impressive but Mets' offense stifled by Stults
NEW YORK -- David Wright finished Thursday's game 0-for-3 with three strikeouts. Ike Davis was 0-for-3 with two punchouts and a double play. Marlon Byrd whiffed twice and grounded out once in three at-bats. Lucas Duda struck out in all three of his plate appearances.
It was that type of day for Dillon Gee and the Mets, who continued delivering strong pitching in their third game of the season, but somewhere along the way lost their offensive punch. The result was a 2-1 loss to the Padres that ensured, if there was any doubt, that the Mets would not go undefeated.
"We weren't going to win them all," Davis said. "But it would have been nice to get this last one today."
Over their first two games of the season, the Mets combined strong starting pitching with powerful offense to win a pair of blowouts. Thursday, one of those ingredients was missing from the start.
Padres lefty Eric Stults silenced the Mets over the first five innings, striking out seven batters and allowing three hits. Though the Mets put five runners on base over the first three frames, they could not come up with the sort of timely knocks that had been their trademark in two convincing wins to start the season.
"We had been doing that so well in the past," said catcher John Buck, who plated the Mets' only run with a solo homer off Huston Street in the ninth. "They just pitched well, and they hit their spots. Sometimes you don't want to, but you've got to tip your cap to them."
The Mets did have their chances, including a prime opportunity to tie the game with two men on base and one out in the sixth. But Byrd whiffed on three straight fastballs and Duda struck out looking, ending the threat. A similar opportunity surfaced three innings earlier, but Davis grounded into an inning-ending double play with two men on base.
Still another chance came with two outs in the eighth. Yet in his lone RBI opportunity of the day, Justin Turner grounded back to the pitcher.
It was Turner's only hiccup of the afternoon. Spelling Daniel Murphy in the starting lineup at second base, the utility man finished 3-for-4 with two singles and a double. But the Mets twice stranded Turner in scoring position, primarily because their third-through-sixth hitters finished 0-for-13 with 11 strikeouts and a double play.
"These are the type of games that we play," Padres manager Bud Black said. "These are good ones to win, when you play hard and they're tight. Every pitch is critical."
The dearth of offense made a hard-luck loser out of Gee, who held the Padres to one run over 6 1/3 innings. After walking the first batter of the game, Gee set down 10 in a row. He wriggled out of his stickiest jam in the fourth inning, but not before Mark Kotsay blooped a single, Yonder Alonso singled him to second base and Jedd Gyorko doubled him home.
It should have been a positive experience for Gee, who had not pitched since undergoing emergency surgery to repair artery damage in his shoulder last July. But it was a loss. And that was what Gee took away from it.
"Some days are just better than others," he said.
If the Mets had any designs on a comeback, the Padres ratcheted up the difficulty with a critical insurance run in the eighth. Chris Denorfia drew a leadoff walk against Mets reliever Jeurys Familia, moved to second base on Alonso's single and scored on Familia's wild pitch.
That loomed large in the ninth inning, when Buck's homer drew the Mets back within one. But Buck, like Gee, Davis and so many others in the home clubhouse at Citi Field, was relatively upbeat after the loss. The Mets still won their season-opening series over the Padres, still boast a winning record and still feel positive about their pitching.
They know they cannot win every game. It's more important that they give themselves a chance to win most of them.
"When you've got them on the ropes, you'd like to finish the deal," Davis said. "But hopefully starting tomorrow, we win another series and keep it going."


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A Historic Salami Sandwich at Mile End
A new sandwich every day.
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
In the heart of Montreal's Jewish quarter on Avenue Fairmount lies Wilensky's Light Lunch. Opened in 1932 by Moe Wilensky, the corner restaurant has been serving homemade soda and its eponymous Wilensky Special ($3.90, $4.34 with cheese)—beef salami and bologna with (mandatory and strictly enforced) mustard pressed on a kaiser roll—ever since. The place is still run by Moe's widow, Ruth, 93, and their children, and despite the lack of tourists and attention relative to nearby Schwartz's, home of the more famous Smoked Meat Sandwich ($6.65), Wilensky's is a Montreal institution.
Mile End, New York's own Montreal deli transplant, has made a name for itself with contemporary take on Jewish classics, including its own Smoked Meat Sandwich. However, since opening in 2010, they've also sold the Ruth Wilensky ($8.50), their unsung tribute to the Wilensky Special. Despite frequenting Mile End for a number of years, I still hadn't tried the Ruth before writing this piece, even after trying the original Special on a trip to Montreal.
The sandwich comes out on an onion roll with half-inch-thick slices of beef salami and the all-important mustard, looking exactly like a grown-up version of the original. It was immediately clear that the salami would stand out more than anything else. Very strongly flavored and very peppery (although not too salty), this salami would work wonderfully on its own, despite being a little dry, but in the context of a sandwich, it simply overpowers everything else. The top half of the bread was able to temper it a bit, despite being a little stale, while the bottom half absorbed most of the juices and mustard. I even split Smoked Meat Poutine ($16) with a friend for reference, and the usually strong smoked meat seemed mellow in comparison.
While I'm glad I finally tried Mile End's Ruth Wilensky, and love that they've honored such a venerable and spunky piece of sandwich history, I'm not sure if it's the tightest part of their menu. But if you want to change things up from the smoked meat (my go-to), it's definitely an option.
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Linda Millett, a 31-year-old Middleboro mom lay in a coma with countless fractures after a crash last summer. Multiple surgeries and prayers later, she is home, walking and talking again.
Linda Millett lay in a coma at Boston Medical Center for about a month after the accident. Her ankles, her legs, her hips were all broken. She had too many fractures to even count. Her brain was so swollen doctors couldn't even lie her down to do surgery.
"It would have to be a miracle itself, a pure miracle for her to come back," Linda's mother, Sandra Millett, 53, said at the time. "She just got hit too hard."
People around Middleboro, fearing the worst, kept silent.
"Sandy, we were afraid to ask," they'd tell her mom later.
"She made it," she tells them now, with a smile.
Four months and two rehabilitation clinics later, Linda Millett was home, walking and talking. Today, she continues to make strides in what can only be described as a "miracle" recovery.
Millett, 31, who lay unable to speak or even breathe on her own for weeks, can now cook for herself and dress herself. She brushes her own teeth and converses in soft, steady sentences.
But as her body works to recover physically – she walks with a walker and still struggles to bend over to tie her shoes – mentally, things are still a bit hazy.
"It seems like it was months and months ago. It doesn't make any sense," Linda said in a recent interview at her home, still trying to put everything together.
Millett suffered some brain damage from the crash, her mother says. It's too soon to tell how much.
"She's not 100 percent. She may seem it to other people," she said, "but I'm her mother. I know."
At about 6:30 p.m. on July 4, 2012, Millett was coming back from a holiday barbeque – so she's told, though the Middleboro mom remembers nothing from that day, or from about a month before it happened.
Her boyfriend, Chris Backman was behind the wheel and her 5-year-old son, Evan Tyler, in the backseat, when a pickup rounded the corner on Route 105 at the I-495 overpass driving 87 mph in the wrong lane, police said.
The crash killed both drivers – Backman, 47, of Middleboro, and 27-year-old Patrick Adams, of Plympton, who police say caused the crash.
A good Samaritan, before crews arrived on scene, helped rescue Evan, now 6, who hung in his car seat upside down. Millett was airlifted to Boston in critical condition.
After stints at Boston Spaulding and Cambridge Spaulding, Millett is now home, attending the Blue Hills Sports & Spine Rehabilitation center in Plymouth three times a week. Her goal: to fully transition from a walker to a cane by May.
It's her left knee that hurts the most.
She calculates the pain as a 5 on a scale of 1-10, because with little memory, she has nothing to compare it too. But she thinks past the pain. Her blue eyes literally sparkle when she talks about walking again, and perhaps driving again someday.
On a recent Wednesday, Flo MacDonald, a Plymouth therapist at Blue Hills, rubs lotion on Millett's left knee, massaging the tissue underneath to get the blood flowing.
"What we're looking for here is to get her knee a little straighter and then get her to bend it a little more so that she can transition from a walker to a cane," MacDonald explains.
Bending that knee is "one of her biggest challenges," MacDonald says.
The therapist asks her if she's doing her daily stretches at home. Millett nods with a soft "mmhm."
MacDonald jokes with her about St. Patrick's Day and movies she watched while in the hospital. She keeps a smile on her face even though she knows Millett has a long road in front of her.
"She had multiple fractures, so we have limitations for sure," MacDonald said. "What we're left with is what we're left with, and I'm not really sure yet (what to expect)."
There is a purple scar that runs about 4 inches on her left ankle. The scarring to her left knee is more faded; it doesn't come close to portraying the damage underneath.
MacDonald straps a 2-pound brace around Millett's ankle and coaches her to raise her leg 45 degrees into the air; repeat.
She turns her on her side and asks her to raise her leg again, working to build muscle.
"Awesome," she tells her.
"That was a struggle when she first came in," she said.
Millett doesn't complain about the pain, but with upturned lips looks to MacDonald and says with each rep: "Is it OK to stop this now?"
On her mind, as she lays down on the table, is the tens of thousands of dollars – maybe more – in bills she now faces.
"Just from being in the wrong place at the wrong time," her mother says.
Following the crash, Sandra had set a trust fund up in her daughter's name, and in a recent interview, thanked everyone for their contributions, as well as their continued thoughts and prayers as news about the event spread.
Millett's family may never know whether Adams – the driver in the car who caused the crash – was under the influence at the time, as Middleboro police are refusing to release toxicology reports.
Police said they found hypodermic needles, a metal spoon, often associated with heroin use, pills and an empty nip of alcohol scattered at the scene.
The family now is trying to move on, to forget the crash.
Meanwhile, Millett is trying to remember the good things. She still doesn't remember saying 'I love you' to Backman, her boyfriend of two years. But she knows they were in love from past text messages.
Most of all, she looks forward to caring for her son again – taking him to the playground and the library like she always did.
"They just can't play roughhouse for a while," Sandra says with a smile.
On top of everything that has happened – the crash, the cost of it all – Sandra and Linda are locked in a custody battle fighting to get Evan back from his father in New Hampshire.
"They were like glue," Sandra said, of Linda and Evan. "No matter where she went, she took him."
That, more than any amount of physical therapy, is what will help Linda heal, her mother said.
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Say Goodbye to Static Sites
By: Keith Jordan
Imagine that major news breaks — the kind that changes everything in the areas your publication covers. Your editorial team wants to throw normal design out the window and create a unique treatment that conveys the news event's importance.
Most print publications have long since found ways to react to this situation. But what about your website?
Very few media sites have the flexibility to handle these eventualities without custom coding, which often requires specialized skills you may not always have on hand. At best, many sites have a predefined "big news" template. And some don't even have that option. Some sites I review simply pull whatever photo is attached to the story onto the homepage, whether it makes sense without reading the story or not, and pull the lead paragraph of the story, whether it has context in that presentation or not.
Why are these limitations unacceptable in print, but OK on the Web? With a well-designed system, you can accommodate almost any scenario along these lines with non-technical production staff. Here's one way to do it: metadata.
Flip the Switch
If this were a technical discussion, we could get very detailed here. But since this is a business discussion on how to operate a site that will make you proud and earn you lots of money, let's keep it simple. Metadata is information that is attached to your articles or blog posts. It's always there, riding along with the article wherever it goes, but not always displayed, and it can be displayed in different ways as a template requires. You can change a page layout while using the same metadata. It can be as simple as flipping a switch.
The metadata itself can be anything, but most commonly would be a photo, promotional text, and perhaps headline that you attach to the article specifically to appear on your homepage or section pages. This can be different than the pictures and text that appear on the article itself, since your team knows that stuff won't make sense in the context of a homepage. And the metadata can be used, not used, played big, or played small as the layout demands.
Normal day? Use your default setting — let's say you have a lead story, a couple of secondary stories, and then a list of headlines. Since you're pulling your metadata instead of automatically showing the pictures and headlines from the article pages, everything looks tight and in context.
Miracle on the Hudson? Toggle to a layout that strips your lead story across the top of the page and makes the offleads bigger. You're using the same metadata, so nobody has to put much special time into working up the photos and text.
World War III breaks out? Toggle to your WWIII layout that gives gigantic play to the top story, with everything else an afterthought.
The same concepts apply with ad-related or revenue-related alternate layouts. It's the same philosophy and very similar technology.
Limitless Possibilities
You can have as many or as few layout options as you like, and if you need more, any junior Web developer can create more. You can have one for vertical lead photos and another for horizontal lead photos. You can have one for a video as the lead story — and then plug in the video code as metadata in the article. Your editorial team could switch between these options with no technical assistance. And you can leverage the same metadata or alternate metadata for your mobile products.
Sound good? You can do this with any full-fledged content management platform; it may be unavailable or limited on simpler point solutions, and on some in-house systems. It just requires the right conversations with whoever builds or deploys your content management system. The sad thing is how often those conversations don't occur.
The same level of control, flexibility, and refined curation you expect in print is within your reach online. At your next opportunity to review or change Web publishing systems, be sure to ask what kind of flexibility you can give your editors by using metadata and templates that leverage that metadata.
Keith Jordan is managing director of Upstream Digital Media (UpstreamDigitalMedia.com), a consulting business that focuses on editorial site launches, redesigns, and workflows.


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AUCKLAND, New Zealand, May 12 (UPI) -- One of the world's most proficient deep-diving submarines, the remote controlled Nereus, imploded over the weekend while exploring the Kermadec Trench, northeast of New Zealand's North Island.
Nereus was a stalwart of deep sea exploration, and a prized tool of U.S. science.
"Nereus helped us explore places we've never seen before and ask questions we never thought to ask," Timothy Shank, a scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), told BBC News. WHOI managed Nereus's research and diving activities.
Nereus lost contact with controllers while cruising at a depth of 6.2 miles beneath the ocean's surface. Debris from the sub, later found floating in the area, led scientists to believe Nereus suffered an implosion.
At the time of its demise, Nereus was exploring the second-deepest ocean trench on earth. The underwater pressure was a crushing 16,000 pounds per square inch, or psi.
"Extreme exploration of this kind is never without risk, and the unfortunate loss of Nereus only underscores the difficulty of working at such immense depths and pressures," explained Larry Madin, the head of research at WHOI. "Fortunately, there was no human injury as a consequence of this loss."
There was financial loss, however -- $8 million. Launched in 2008, Nereus was constructed with funding from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as several non-profit organizations.


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Find the right golf shoe for your game.
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The FootJoy team in Europe just concluded a great promotion called MyJoys May that culminated in a group of 8 FJ players wearing MyJoys shoes that were hand picked by website visitors.
We caught up with Richard Fryer, our FJ European Marketing Manager to tell us a little about how MyJoys May came about ...
"Everyone loves to know what shoes the Tour guys are wearing, and we thought why not let the consumer choose! Really, its the only piece of equipment that we can throw open to the everyday club golfer to choose on behalf of the player.
The BMW PGA at Wentworth is the flagship event on the European Tour so we felt that this would be the perfect event to showcase the shoes. The fact that both MyJoys and May start with the same letter was just a coincidence....! So we spoke to all the key players and got them to design 3 pairs of shoes through our website www.myjoys.co.uk and to let us have the designs.
The idea initially began inviting news subscribers to design a pair from scratch for Titleist and FJ Staffer Kenneth Ferrie. Kenny went through the hundreds of entries and selected a pair of white sheild tip FJ ICON MyJoys with a lime patent saddle and a pink patent accent - they looked superb! Here's a photo of him wearing them with the winning designer Chris Pyle, a 4 handicapper from Hull.
We then put up the website www.myjoysmay.co.uk which featured eight prominent European FJ players and consumer got to vote on one of the 3 designs on the players' shortlist. A live leaderboard would then generate to show which design was in the lead. This was then backed up by some banner advertising on the major websites in the UK to allow even more golfers to get involved.
MyJoys has had a great start to the year, with the addition of 4 FJ ICON styles to the MyJoys programme golfers across Europe are ordering some great designs and really taking advantage of the seemingly endless number of customisation options."
Tour pros the world over are embracing the fashion, fun that MyJoys has to offer. Build yours today by visiting your local golf retailer or by visiting MyJoys.com.
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Another stunning day at the TPC Boston in Norton, Massachusetts as the top 100 players in the world made final preparations for the Deutsche Bank Championship. Once again we were collecting feedback on the new FJ ICON line and working with the players to design some custom shoes through the MyJoys program. We shot some video wth the players talking about the custom process and options that we'll share in the next few weeks. In the meantime, click on the image below to see some highlights from Thursday.
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We were on the range Tuesday at the PGA Tour's second playoff event, the Deutsche Bank Championship. We were not only checking in with our FootJoy players but also set up a large display to show them the full line of FJ ICON styles and all the options available through the MyJoys program. In short, the players were thrilled! Check out the pictures from Wednesday and we'll post video next week so you can hear what players such as David Toms, Charley Hoffman, John Merrick and Jason Bohn think of FootJoy's new flagship product and all the custom options!


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Pressure application method
A method of treating sleep apnea by the novel application of pressure varying from ambient pressure to external portions of a patient's neck, and a novel breathing mask seal apparatus.
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In the art of respirators, resuscitators, and the like it is well known to provide apparatus in the form of an enclosure which encompasses a portion of the human body such as the upper torso or thoratic region thereof to provide within the confines of the enclosure a pressure containment chamber wherein pressure variations may be applied to the body to stimulate respiration. A wide variety of such devices are known, the following prior art being representative.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,078,842 discloses a resuscitation apparatus which employs a rigid shell to enclose the torso of a human body. U.S. Pat. No. 4,523,579 discloses another rigid shell type body respirator having flexible side walls. U.S. Pat. No. 2,241,444 discloses a respirator jacket comprised of a rigid shell made by laying up reinforced plaster of paris material on a plaster cast which has been molded to the body contours of the individual user, and which includes an enlarged cavity confronting the chest and adjacent abdominal region of the user. Other rigid shell type resuscitators are disclosed by U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,257,407 and 2,309,361. The latter of these discloses a padded liner in a rigid generally form-fitting respirator.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,899,955 discloses a respirator belt which encircles the waist of a user and includes an inflatable bladder to which air pressure is directed for assisted breathing. U.S. Pat. No. 4,621,621 discloses a respirator including a rigid wire cage that encompasses a portion of a user's body and is in turn encompassed by an air tight cover to provide a vacuum chamber surrounding the user's body. U.S. Pat. No. 3,577,977 discloses a flexible, inflatable bladder-type jacket and U.S. Pat. No. 2,480,980 discloses a rigid, generally form-fitting respirator jacket. Finally, U.S. Pat. No. 4,664,098 discloses a cardio-pulmonary resuscitator which is worn by a patient in the manner of a belt encompassing the abdominal region.
Notwithstanding such known devices, practitioners in the art have continued to seek improved body respirators. For example, improvements have been continually sought in body respirator compactness, portability, user comfort, reduced power requirements, and of course improved therapeutic efficacy.
Also known in the prior art are a variety of vacuum devices for immobilizing a part of a body. The Rapid Form.TM. brand vacuum splint is one example. Such devices utilize a structure known as vacuum beads to provide a selectively rigid or flexible member that is used, for example as in the case of the above specified vacuum splint, to immobilize selected body parts that have sustained bone fractures or the like. Such known devices generally comprise a thin section airtight envelope filled with material such as styrofoam beads which interengage and deform upon application of a vacuum within the envelope to thereby render the vacuum bead material relatively rigid. The rigid vacuum bead material thus is utilized to immobilize a selected body part.BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention contemplates a novel and improved body respirator, resuscitator, pressure or pulse monitoring apparatus or similar apparatus such as a wrap or sheath, or a breathing mask which is universal in its application by virtue of its being very closely form-fitting for any selected user irrespective of variations in body size or contours from one user to another. The invention also is light in weight and compact, imposes minimal power requirements for its use, and provides greatly enhanced user comfort and therefore enhanced user tolerance. The invention thus provides greatly enhanced convenience for the user as well as for emergency rescue teams and others who may encounter the need for regular access to emergency equipment of this sort, among other advantages. The invention also contemplates a novel and improved method for the use of varying pressures in a variety of medical applications.
The apparatus of this invention contemplates, in one of several presently preferred embodiments, a body enclosure comprised of a sheath or wrap of selectively flexible or rigid material, such as the above characterized vacuum bead structure or the like, formed to encompass a selected body portion and including seals to seal perimeteral portions or other portions of the body sheath, for example to seal about the openings through which adjacent body portions project such as at the waist, neck, or arms.
The sheath is adapted to be placed in closely spaced form-fitting relation encompassing a portion of the user's body to define, in a zone between the sheath and the user's body, a very thin-section chamber or space. The sheath is then selectively rigidified, as by application of a vacuum if comprised of conventional vacuum bead material, to form a rigid, form-fitting enclosure about the encompassed portion of the patient's body whereby the chamber or space between the sheath and the user's body is provided with a rigid outer wall which closely conforms to the adjacent body contours of the user. Pressure or vacuum generating equipment may be utilized to apply pressure variations within this space to act on the flexible inner wall (i.e. the user's body) to assist user ventilation or for other purposes. Alternatively, the pressure within the space may be observed to monitor user pulse, breathing, or the like.
Because the sheath is selectively rendered rigid or flexible, it is quite compact and easily stored when not in use. Because it is placed about the user's body in a flexible state, it is universal in application and extremely closely form fitting with the attendant benefit that the containment space defined between the sheath and the user's body is of minimal volume. Effective operation thus is achieved with minimal power requirements and minimal required compressor or vacuum pump delivery rates.
The invention additionally contemplates spacer means disposed within the pressure containment space between the sheath and the user's body so as to define a predetermined minimal spacing therebetween so that the form and volume of the pressure containment space may be readily controlled. The spacer means is of a structure (e.g. open cell foam) to permit pressure variations introduced at one point within the containment space to be transmitted throughout the space even if the spacer means is substantially co-extensive with the pressure containment space.
The invention additionally contemplates a novel and improved method of pressure utilization in conjunction with the body of a user with advantages corresponding to the above noted and other advantages of the novel apparatus.
It is accordingly one object of the invention to provide a novel and improved body respirator, resuscitator, or the like.
It is a further object of the invention to provide an improved apparatus and method for the utilization of external pressure in the medical treatment of a patient.
A more specific object of the invention is to provide a selectively rigid, flexible body wrap, sheath, mask, vest, or similar apparatus which is adapted to encompass a portion of a body to thereby define in conjunction therewith a sealed space adjacent the body such that pressure controlling or monitoring means cooperable with the sheath is operable to selectively vary or monitor the pressure within the sealed space.
These and other objects and further advantages of the invention will be more readily understood upon consideration of the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a frontal elevation of one presently preferred embodiment of the instant invention;
FIG. 2 is a side elevation, partially broken away to show details of an alternative embodiment of the invention shown encompassing the body of a user;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged detailed portion of FIG. 2 including schematic representation of a vacuum pump and pressure controller according to one presently preferred embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a wrap or sheath apparatus according to an alternative embodiment of the invention; and
FIG. 5 is a sectioned side elevation of a breathing mask or similar apparatus according to another alternative embodiment of the invention.
There is generally indicated at 10 in FIG. 1 a body respirator or the like constructed according to one presently preferred embodiment of the invention and including a body sheath 12 formed for purposes of this embodiment as a vest or jacket and including, when enclosed about the user's body, a neck opening 14 as well as arm holes or apertures 16.
Suitable fasteners are provided, for example Velcro.TM. or similar interengaging tapes, to maintain a front opening 18 tightly closed and sealed when the vest is donned and in use, and to thus maintain the sheath 12 in closely form-fitting relation about the upper torso or thoratic region of the user's body.
An alternative form of the sheath or vest as identified at 12' in FIG. 2 passes beneath the arms of the user so no arm holes are required. The sheath 12' encompasses the user's waist and upper chest. For the embodiments shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, all openings from which parts of the user's body project are sealed by suitable seal means such as encompassing band means 20 to form intermediate the sheath and the body 22 (FIG. 2) of the user a sealed space or chamber 32.
Other differences of the FIG. 2 embodiments from that of FIG. 1 include buckle and strap fasteners 24 in lieu of fasteners 17 and the location of closure 26 of adjacent one side of the user's body rather than extending vertically along user's front as does opening 18 of the FIG. 1 embodiment. Of course, a wide variety of alternative configurations may be utilized in accordance with the specific purposes and desired features of the sheath 12. Specifically, an apparatus according to this invention but adapted to encompass a body part other than the chest or abdominal region will of course be configured accordingly.
Regarding further aspects of the invention, as exemplified by FIG. 2, sheath 12' comprises a selectively rigid or flexible wall system 28 which is maintained in closely spaced relationship with respect to the user's body 22 as by means of spacers 30, which may be of such suitable structure as open cell foam to permit the transmission of pressure variations imposed at one location within the confines of the sheath 12' to all locations therein.
The spacers 30 may occupy only a small portion or alternatively substantially all of the volume of the space 32 defined intermediate sheath 12' and the user's body 22, within the confines of perimeteral seals 20. It will be noted, however, that space 32 need not be coextensive with the mutually contiguous zones of sheath 12' and the user's body 22, that spacers 30 may be of other suitable structure or may be eliminated entirely, and that seals 20 need not be disposed about perimeteral portions of the sheath 12' where portions of the user's body extend therefrom.
The invention thus contemplates an apparatus which is utilized to form a sealed space between a body sheath and a user's body with the sealed space being defined generally by an inner wall system comprised of a portion of the user's body, an outer wall system comprised of a corresponding adjacent portion of a sheath wall disposed in closely spaced form-fitting relation with respect to the user's body. A seal system seals all interfaces between the sheath and the user's body that are exposed to pressure variations introduced within the sealed space.
It is noted that seals are to be provided to seal any opening which is provided to facilitate installation or removal of the sheath, for example opening 18 of FIG. 1 or 26 of FIG. 2. These and any other such openings would require seals to preclude leakage due to a pressure differential between ambient and the pressure condition within space 32.
There is shown in FIG. 3 a portion of the novel body respirator. In FIG. 3, sheath 12' is comprised of an outer flexible shell 34 of sheet polyethylene for example, which is coextensive with the selectively rigidified structure 36. Structure 36 comprises a pair of flexible, closely spaced, air impermeable inner and outer walls 38 and 40 of such suitable material as vinyl or polyeurethane impregnated nylon. The inner and outer walls 38 and 40 are sealed together along a continuous line encompassing a space 42 therebetween, which space 42 contains a mass of interengageable elements 44 such as beads of styrofoam brand plastic. Air permeable partition elements 41 joined to and extending between walls 40 and 38 may be provided at intervals in space 42 as barriers to prevent undesirable migration of beads 44 within the space 42.
As is known, the above described structure is typical of vacuum bead type systems wherein the application of a vacuum within space 42, as by means of a vacuum pump 46, causes walls 40 and 38 to collapse inwardly under the impetus of external ambient air pressure against the beads 44. Thus, upon imposition of such a vacuum in space 42, the styrofoam beads 44 deform in interengagement and lock up in an immobilized state to form a rigid shell from the previously flexible shell. Upon release of the vacuum drawn within space 42, the styrofoam beads 44 are released from their mutual interengagement and the vacuum bead structure 36 becomes once again flexible.
Carried adjacent the inner wall 40, and preferably affixed thereto in a suitable manner is the spacing material 32 as above characterized. In use, the innermost extent of the spacing material 32 engages the body of the user 22 to thereby establish and maintain a generally uniform spacing or separation between the sheath 12' and the user's body 22.
Of course, the spacing therebetween is uniform only if the spacer element 32 is of uniform thickness. More generally, the spacing between sheath 12' and user's body 22 may vary according to variation in the thickness of the spacing elements 32. Also, and as noted hereinabove, the spacing element 32 may be omitted entirely as it is contemplated that only a very thin section space generally is necessary between the user's body and the sheath 12' for effective operation of the invention.
As further shown in FIG. 3, the invention additionally comprises a pressure controller 48 which is powered by any suitable and conventional power means to deliver air flow under pressure to space 32 in order to impose within space 32 controlled pressure at variance with ambient atmospheric pressure. For example, pressure controller 48 may be utilized to impose alternating or cyclic elevated pressure within space 32, or a partial vacuum.
In order to accommodate the pressure controller 48, a suitable air flow delivery conduit 50 provides an air flow path between pressure controller 48 and space 32, and of course therefore traverses the sheath 12'. In a preferred embodiment the sheath 12' will include a port means having any suitable, known coupling 51 or air conduit connection on the outer side thereof for connection to a delivery conduit from pressure controller 48.
For emphasis it is reiterated here that the apparatus of this invention may take any of a variety of forms to encompass any portion of a user's body other than the chest or thoratic region and for a variety of purposes other than respiratory assistance. For example, an apparatus similar in many salient respects to that above described and encompassing the thoratic region may be utilized with alternating pressure, and in conjunction with alternating pressure delivered in a specified phased relationship to the airway of a patient to function as a heart pump for cardio-vascular resuscitation. In another alternative mode of use, the apparatus of this invention may be utilizied with pressure monitoring equipment 49 (FIG. 3) which is connected via a conduit 53 to space 32 for the purpose of monitoring pressure therein. Thus any physical response of a user which causes variation of the pressure within space 32, pluse or spontaneous breathing for example, may be observed by use of pressure monitor 49.
The invention may also be embodied as a wrap or sheath as above mentioned, for example a wrap or sheath for a limb or other extremity. FIG. 4 shows such a wrap or sheath 60 which is adapted to encompass a human limb or any similarly configured body part, for example, the neck. The sheath 60 is comprised of an elongated flexible band 62 which forms an elongated, thin section envelope 64 that contains therein material such as styrofoam beads similar in all salient respects to the above described vacuum bead structures. Fastener bands 66 are affixed adjacent one longitudinal end of band 64 as by stitching 68 and cooperating fastener strips 70 are similarly affixed adjacent the opposed end of band 62. Fastener strip 66 and 70 may be cooperating hook and loop type fastener strips such as Velcro.TM. brand fastener material.
Sheath 60 may also include seal means such as a patch seal 72 in the form of a foam rubber or similar sealing strip affixed to one side of band 62 intermediate its longitudinal ends and forming thereon a closed perimeter which defines within its confines a space 74. A suitable vacuum connection 76 communicates with space 74, for example by penetrating the band 62 via a fitting 78 within the confines of seal 72. The sheath 60 thus may be applied to a human limb or similarly configured body part as a wrap with the fastener strips 66 and 70 overlapping to maintain the band 62 in encompassing relationship on such a body part and with an outer seal surface 80 of seal member 72 engaging a corresponding surface portion of such body part continuously along the extent of seal 72. By application of vacuum as via a vacuum connection 82, the band 62 may be selectively rigidified in encompassing relationship about a human limb as described. In an alternative embodiment, the selectively rigidified part of band 62 may be limited to that part encompassed by seal 72.
For either embodiment, the application of vacuum to the band 62 as described forms a relatively rigid outer wall for space 74 with the inner wall thereof being that portion of the patient's body encompassed by seal 72. Accordingly, pressures varying from ambient atmospheric pressure may be applied for therapeutic effect to that portion of the patient's body exposed to such pressure variation within the confines of seal 72 in much the same manner as pressure variations are applied to the upper thoracic region as above described with reference to FIGS. 1 through 3.
Specifically, since the outer wall of space 74 is rigid, the application of elevated pressure above ambient pressure via connection 76 in space 74 will tend to compress the corresponding adjacent portion of the patient's body which forms the inner wall of space 74 whereas a partial vacuum within space 74 will tend to distend the adjacent body portion by drawing it into the space 74.
Another alternative embodiment of the invention is shown in FIG. 5 as a breathing mask 83 having a generally rigid body 84 which carries a seal assembly 86 that encompasses an open space 88 which communicates through body 84 with a gas supply connection portion 90 of mask body 84. Accordingly, mask 83 may be placed with seal assembly 86 in confronting engagement with a user's face so that seal assembly 86 encompasses the nose or the nose and mouth of a user. Breathing gas for the user is then supplied exclusively through connection 90.
Since the function of a breathing mask such as shown in FIG. 5 differs from the function of a body type respirator such as shown in FIGS. 1 through 3, the expanse of space within the confines of seal 86 need not be enclosed by the vacuum bead material to provide a rigid outer wall such as is required for the respirator of FIGS. 1 through 3. Rather, for the FIG. 5 embodiment of the invention, the function of vacuum bead structure as described hereinbelow is to provide an effective and and closely conforming surface seal to fit a wide variety of user facial contours in more or less universal fashion whereby a single mask may be readily adapted for use by virtually any patient.
Accordingly, it will be seen that seal assembly 86 comprises a flexible perimeteral wall system 92 comprised of rubber for example, and formed in a closed ring with a generally tubular cross section. The space 94 closed within the wall system 92 is filled preferably with vacuum bead material such as above described with reference to FIGS. 1 through 3, for example styrofoam plastic beads.
The resilient wall element 92 is mounted upon mask body member 84 and extends outwardly therefrom, and a seal member 96 may be affixed to an outer extent of wall element 92 for confronting sealing engagement with a user's face. A vacuum connection 98 is provided to permit drawing a partial vacuum upon space 94 with seal 96 in engagement with that portion of a user's face encompassing the nose or the nose and mouth. The partial vacuum, acting on the mass of interengageable beads, causes them to become forcefully interengaged under the impetus of ambient atmospheric pressure compressing the flexible wall element 92 inwardly. The mass of beads thus becomes rigid and supports the wall 92 against inward collapse. The wall 92 thus holds whatever form it and the contained beads have assumed by virtue of sealing pressure against the face of a user. Accordingly, the mask 83 is effective universally for any user as the seal thereon readily conforms, and is maintained in conforming relationship to the user's face by virtue of operation of the vacuum bead apparatus as described.
For purposes of this invention, including all embodiments described hereinabove, the structure of the vacuum bead material may include a variety of alternatives including styrofoam beads as above described or alternatively a finely divided powder with similar mechanical properties. Additionally, the material within the vacuum envelope may be infused or coated with a bonding agent such as a heat curing adhesive to permit the set or shape of the vacuum bead structure, once established by the vacuum action, to be permanently maintained. This is done by subjecting the vacuum bead material to sufficient activating or curing energy such as heat for curing a heat cured adhesive. Other types of bonding systems may also be used, for example chemical curing systems, pressure sensitive adhesives, photosensitive or light curing systems, and so forth. Any adhesive will suffice which provides the function of maintaining the shape or form of the vacuum bead structure after release of the vacuum by bonding the individual vacuum beads or similar elements together. Some adhesive systems, such as heat curing or heat setting adhesives, would for all practical purposes be limited to use in a structure as described which is to be permanently maintained in the form suited to a particular user. That is, once the heat setting adhesive is cured, it would not be possible re-use the same adhesive. By contrast, a hot melt adhesive or similar bonding system would permit re-use of a mask or respirator structure according to this invention for another user as the bonds between interengaged vacuum beads could be broken by mechanical force (i.e. massaging or kneading the vacuum bead envelope). The mask or respirator could then be fitted to a different user, the vacuum applied to maintain the resulting seal and/or space configuration, and the vacuum bead material then once again subjected to heat to melt the adhesive and bond the vacuum bead materials in the new configuration.
The seal 96 of FIG. 5 or corresponding seal elements from other disclosed embodiments similarly may take a variety of forms including a rubber surface seal as shown, or alternatively an inflated bladder seal filled with air, foam or gel, a flap seal, or the like. Any of these may include a tacky outer surface for engagement with the respective body part of a user to provide sealing with a user's body in part by temporary, releasable adhesion to the skin. Another seal structure contemplated includes a closed envelope containing a hydroscopic gel material which has cushioning properties and a tacky character such that the seal is resilient at low mechanical loads but is permanently deformed by larger loads. The air filled bladder seal generally may be a tubular bladder with air space encircling a space similar to 94 that contains therein vacuum bead material or any alternative as above discussed. In addition, it is contemplated that the outer surface of wall 92 may function itself as a seal for confronting engagement with a body portion of a user such that a separate seal member such as at 96 in FIG. 5 may be entirely eliminated.
In an additional alternative embodiment applicable to any of the above described structures, the invention may be comprised of a body member which carries a separate, replaceable vacuum bead liner structure as opposed to having the vacuum bead structure permanently installed with other elements of the invention.
One advantage of the mask structure of FIG. 5 is that when vacuum is applied via connection 98, the vacuum bead material 95 will be maintained in a rigid form defining an outer profile for sealing in close conformity to the face of a user; however, if leaks should be present in such a seal, the vacuum bead material 95, even when under vacuum, can be formed or molded by the application of mechanical pressure (i.e. finger pressure) to change the seal profile or configuration. Accordingly, if leaks are detected after application of vacuum, the medical practitioner can eliminate such leaks with mere finger pressure applied against wall element 92 adjacent the leak. Such mechanical pressure will displace the wall 92 inwardly thus moving or displacing the immediately adjacent vacuum beads. Since under such relatively small and non-uniform mechanical pressures the individual beads are not significantly compressed but merely redistributed, mechanical finger pressure as described will force some of the vacuum bead material outwardly in the direction of seal 96 to thereby close the leak. Thus, with the combination of direct fitting to the face of the user, application of vacuum to maintain resulting shape, application of mechanical pressure as needed to effect proper seal conformity with the user's face, and finally application of heat or other mechanism to set an adhesive supplied within space 94 to the vacuum bead material 95, the mask 83 provides for a custom fit to any user, which custom fit is then maintained indefinitely for as long as that user must use the mask. The same mask may then be reused to fit any other user with a similar custom fit to provide seal integrity of equal quality.
In still another alternative embodiment of the invention, the vacuum bead material 95 may be supplanted entirely by a heat cure or similar adhesive in powder, granular or bead-like form. Although such a structure is believed to be less useful for repeated universal applications, it would be the equal of other above described embodiments for providing a closely conforming seal in a single use for any user irrespective of differences in facial contours.
Entirely similar structural alternatives as above disclosed also are contemplated for the embodiments of FIGS. 1 through 4 inclusive, and for still further embodiments not heretofore discussed, For example, the disclosed mask structure also contemplates such alternatives as a mask effectively functioning as a perimeteral seal with nasal cannulae protruding within space 88 to be received into the nares of a user.
From the above description, the novel method will also be apparent as including, inter alia, the steps of encompassing or enclosing a patient's body portion with a flexible structure including a seal to provide sealing against selected body portions to form a chamber or enclosed space, and rigidifying at least a part of the structure to provide a rigid boundary for a corresponding part of the enclosed space. Then one may selectively vary the pressure condition within the enclosed space from ambient either at will or in a predetermined program of pressure variation, or by voluntary or involuntary patient response, and as a further optional step, such pressure variation occurring within the enclosed space may be monitored.
According to another aspect of our novel method, the encompassing of a patient's body portion with a flexible sheath as hereinabove specified may be performed as a treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a widespread sleep disorder estimated to affect up to 3% or more of the general population and commonly characterized by occlusion or obstruction of the upper airway in sleep with resultant disruption of breathing and sleep patterns. The condition carries potential serious consequences including oxygen starvation.
The method of the invention accordingly contemplates the application of negative pressure (i.e. pressure below ambient atmospheric) at least to frontal areas of a patient's neck to thereby draw out or distend the adjacent tissue thus permitting the relatively elevated ambient pressure in the airway, or artificially elevated pressure therein such as CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), to expand or distend the upper airway thereby relieving the airway obstruction.
According to the description hereinabove there is provided by the instant invention a novel and improved method and apparatus for the external application of pressure variations to a portion of a user's body. The invention may be utilized to apply pressure at decreased or elevated magnitude with respect to ambient, or in a program of varying pressure magnitudes applied by automatic or manual control, or even pressure variations from ambient or from elevated or decreased pressure magnitudes resulting from voluntary or involuntary user response. The invention further contemplates the monitoring of any such pressure magnitude or variation thereof.
Respecting the FIG. 1 through 3 embodiments, the invention also contemplates an apparatus comprised of separate inner garment, vacuum bead shell, and outer garment structures. The inner garment may be, for example, a foam rubber shell bonded to a fabric backing for the purpose of separating the vacuum bead structure from the user's body. The outer garment may be of the character above described with reference to flexible shell 34, and may include all of the requisite seals such as the described seals 20. Thus it will be clear that the above described components of the invention may be integrally formed together, formed separately and permanently or separably connected, or formed separately and applied one over the other to make up a flexible body enclosing sheath apparatus as above described.
As the inventors herein, we have contemplated these and other alternative and modified embodiments, and certainly such would also occur to others versed in the art once they were apprised of the invention. Accordingly, it is intended that the invention be construed broadly and limited only by the scope of the claims appended hereto.
1. In the medical treatment of sleep apnea syndrome, the method of treatment comprised of applying to frontal portions of a patient's neck a pressure sufficiently less than ambient pressure to distend adjacent neck tissue in a manner effective for alleviating obstruction of the patient's airway in sleep.
2. The method as set forth in claim 1 including the additional step of simultaneously applying an elevated pressure greater than the first mentioned said pressure within the patient's airway.
3. The method as set forth in claim 2 wherein said elevated pressure is of a magnitude greater than ambient atmospheric pressure.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Jun 1, 1993
Date of Patent: Sep 6, 1994
Assignee: Respironics Inc. (Murrysville, PA)
Inventors: Eugene N. Scarberry (Trafford, PA), Patrick M. Handke (Monroeville, PA), Mark H. Sanders (Wexford, PA)
Primary Examiner: Richard J. Apley
Assistant Examiner: Linda C. M. Dvorak
Attorney: J. Stewart Brams
Application Number: 8/69,739
International Classification: A61F 500;


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