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MyHeritage Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on October 11, 2018.
If you have not reviewed it since that date, please do so now.
MyHeritage is an online service that allows members to create family sites and profiles in order to build and print their family trees, share family photos, keep in touch with family members, perform DNA testing, receive genetic analysis, participate in scientific research and research their family history with advanced research tools (the "Service"). The Service is owned and operated by MyHeritage Ltd. (hereafter "MyHeritage", 'we', 'our' or 'us'). 'You' or 'your' means an adult user, over the age of 13, of the Service (in some countries the minimum age is 14, see the "Underage Users" Section in the Terms and Conditions), and/or an adult user over the age of 18 of the DNA Services (see the "Eligibility" Sub-Section under the Section "DNA Services" in the Terms and Conditions). The MyHeritage website (the "Website") is part of a group of websites that we own and operate (the "MyHeritage Website Group") which also includes MyHeritage.* websites on other top-level domains, Geni.com, WorldVitalRecords.com and FamilyLink.com
In this document (this "Privacy Policy") we provide information on what personal information is collected and why, as well as how we use the personal information to provide you with a personalized, relevant, user-friendly experience on the Website. We explain how you can view this personal information, control the way it is shared, or delete it.
Much of the personal information on our Website is uploaded by users for their own personal and private purposes. We recognize the sensitivity and confidentiality of information that may be disclosed by users in registering, making purchases from our Website, performing their family history research, performing DNA testing and receiving genetic analysis, and we are firmly committed to protecting your privacy.
By using this Website and the Service you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and the processing (including collecting, using, disclosing, retaining or disposing) of your information under the terms of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions.
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will issue an updated version of this Privacy Policy with an updated date legend (and notify you via email or by other appropriate means) so that you will be aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it in accordance with applicable law. If you do not consent to the Privacy Policy or to any changes thereto and as a result you would like us not to use or hold your information in accordance with the revised terms, you may contact us (see contact information at the bottom of this Privacy Policy) so that we will delete your information and/or account.
Whenever this Privacy Policy is modified in substance, the label "updated" will be displayed prominently next to the "Privacy Policy" link in the footer of the Website pages. The "updated" label will be removed after 30 days or when you visit the updated Privacy Policy to read it, whichever comes sooner.
Use of the Website following any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy then in effect. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website.
The Service
Our mission is to help everyone discover, preserve and share their family history. We accomplish this by using the resources available on our websites and also through collaborating with our extensive number of users around the world. This may involve the collecting, processing, storing and sharing of personal information. We want to ensure that this is done in a responsible, transparent and secure environment that fosters your trust and confidence.
The Website serves as a worldwide platform for family history, allowing its users to (1) build their family trees and benefit from the synergies of having many family trees from all over the world in one central location, such as the ability to find Smart Matches between the family trees, and to allow users to search other users' family trees, and historical records, to benefit their family history research; and to (2) use DNA related services, including but not limited to (i) submitting samples for DNA extraction and processing, (ii) uploading a digital version of genetic information exported from other DNA services, (iii) receiving and interacting with genetic analysis provided by the Website and (iv) downloading the raw DNA data (collectively, the "DNA Services"). Unless explicitly indicated otherwise, the Service includes the DNA Services for all purposes of this Privacy Policy.
MyHeritage family sites
Most of the personal information on the Website is organized in family sites, each serving a family or a community of users with a shared family history background or research goal. Every family site is managed by a site manager – the user who created it, and may have site members as participants. Family sites typically contain one or more family trees, plus family photos and additional family-oriented content posted by the site manager and the members of the family site.
Within a family site, the Website provides convenient visual tools for building a family tree and adding information to family tree profiles. The Website also provides output tools for producing family tree charts and posters and for showcasing a user's family history to family members via slideshows and online reports. When building a family tree, the user decides which relatives to add to the family tree, whether to add deceased relatives, living relatives or both, and which information to include about them. Adding living relatives to the family tree requires the user to obtain their prior consent. Before adding living relatives below legal age to the family tree, the user must obtain the consent of their parent or guardian.
The user decides to what degree information on the family tree and other information from the family site will be visible to and discoverable by other users, by setting the Privacy Preferences (described in a detailed section below). The user decides whether to build the family tree on the Website on his/her own, or to make it a collaborative effort by inviting family members to assist, using facilities available on the Website for inviting members. If other members are invited, they make similar choices on entering information into the family tree. All information is entered into the Website directly and is not collected implicitly. The Website prevents information on living people in family trees from being disclosed to strangers, to protect privacy, and such information if entered will not be visible outside the family site or discoverable by search engines such as Google. There is one scenario in which living people in family trees may be seen by other users of the Website, typically relatives of these living people – see section "What are Smart Matches™ and how do they affect your privacy?", which describes how to prevent that scenario if it is a concern.
Living people may also be found on the Website in public records (e.g. the 1940 United States Federal Census collection), and in these cases they are allowed by applicable laws. Living people who are well-known celebrities (e.g. presidents, movie stars) can be found on the Website inside the Geni.com collection.
The personal information that you and other users enter is stored in the Website only for the purpose of delivering the Service to you and the other users, i.e. displaying the family tree, printing the family tree, searching historical records, and other genealogy features.
DNA Services
The DNA Services allow you to order MyHeritage DNA testing kits, submit DNA samples to us, allow us to make the acceptable use of such samples and the DNA markers, nucleotides, mutations or haplogroups ("DNA Results") resulting therefrom or submitted by you to the Website and receive outputs of the genetic analysis of the DNA Results which include the DNA Matches and Ethnicity Estimates (together, the "DNA Reports"). All provisions herein apply both to DNA Results produced from MyHeritage DNA kits, and DNA Results uploaded to the Website following an export from another DNA testing service.
DNA Badges
A DNA badge will be displayed in your online family tree, in the person card of any individual for whom you are the DNA Manager. This is an indication that this person had their DNA tested, but it does not provide other people with access to the actual DNA Results. You can disable DNA badges through your privacy preferences.
What personal information does the Website collect from you or about you?
We only collect information we believe is necessary for our legitimate business interests, including to provide you with the Service. Here is a list of the type of personal information we request, collect or you provide:
i) Name, Contact Information and Payment Details:
When you sign up for the Service, we ask for your name, gender and email address, as well as birth year and country. The birth year is collected to ensure that you comply with the Terms and Conditions with regards to underage and minor users. Users who are underage (below age 13, and in some countries, below the age 14, and with respect to the DNA Services, below the age of 18) must not use the Website, and users who are minors (below age 18) must obtain the written consent of a parent or guardian before using the Website. See the Terms and Conditions in this regard. The country is collected so that we can comply with local laws and regulations in your country of residence.
In addition we will need to know your postal address, phone number and payment details to facilitate payment and fulfillment for any subscription or purchases you may choose to make through the Website.
ii) Your Family and Others:
You may also post additional personal information about yourself and others in the course of doing your family research on the Website, e.g., adding a photo to a family tree. Personal information entered in the course of building a family tree may include any of the following:
* Names
* Gender
* Relationships
* Dates and places of events (e.g., birth, death, marriage, divorce, immigration, etc.)
* Photos, documents, video files, audio files and other media
* Email addresses, addresses and contact information
and more.
iii) DNA samples, DNA Results and DNA Reports:
By submitting DNA samples to us and/or DNA Results to the Website, you grant us a royalty-free, world-wide license to use your DNA samples, the DNA Results and the resulting DNA Reports, and any DNA samples and/or DNA Results you submit for any person from whom you obtained legal authorization and the resulting DNA Reports, to the minimum extent necessary to allow us to provide the Service to you. The license you grant to us is not perpetual, and it is revocable as you are able at any time to delete your DNA Results and DNA Reports permanently from the Website and to have us destroy your DNA samples.
DNA related information is generated and stored on the Website when you use the DNA Services, whether through direct submission of a DNA sample to MyHeritage or by submitting to the Website, DNA Results generated by another DNA testing service.
The DNA information includes:
- DNA samples you submit to us;
- DNA Results resulting from the DNA samples;
- DNA Results submitted by you to the Website; and
- DNA Reports generated from the DNA Results
All DNA samples are stored at our testing lab and may be kept by us unless or until circumstances require us to destroy the DNA sample, which you can request at any time by contacting us using the contact details below, or it is no longer suitable for testing purposes. We may store the samples for additional genetic testing (i.e., we may be able to provide more detailed and accurate DNA Results, DNA Reports and other outputs by additional genetic testing in the future, subject to your explicit approval).
Minors: the DNA Services are intended for adults only. We rely upon parents or guardians 18 years of age or older to determine if the DNA Services are appropriate for use by individuals under the age of 18. When a minor uses the DNA Services, the parent or guardian of that minor will be held responsible for the minor's actions and are deemed to have consented to the use of the minor's information by us. By submitting a DNA sample of a minor, you represent that you are the minor's parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly seek or collect personal information from minors. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personal information from a minor, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our databases.
When you provide us with any personal information, that personal information may be transferred to and stored by us in our secure data centers which may provide a different level of protection for personal information than in your country of residence. By providing us with personal or genetic information, you specifically consent to the transfer and processing of such information and its storage in our data centers. We take all adequate security measures to ensure the privacy protection of the personal information provided by you. We place great importance on the security of all personally identifiable information associated with our members. We have implemented commercially reasonable technical, physical and administrative security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, alteration or disclosure of users' personal information under our control. For example, our security and privacy practices are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized personnel have access to personal information. We use secure server software to encrypt financial information you input before it is sent to us and we only work with labs and third parties who have met and commit to our security standards. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, unauthorized access, alteration or disclosure of personal information will not occur; we use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent this. You acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk and you acknowledge that in the event that you download your DNA Results: 1) such download will create a copy that is not protected by MyHeritage's security and privacy settings; 2) such download and the storage of your DNA Results after you have downloaded it, shall all be made at your own risk; and 3) MyHeritage will not have any control over the downloaded DNA Results and shall not be liable to you or to any third party in connection with such download and/or storage.
If you choose to invite other family members or other users to view and edit your family tree, we will ask you for the individual's email address and name. You must first make certain that you have obtained their consent to pass on their details to MyHeritage. We will only use this information for the purpose of sending the individual his/her access details and will not use the information we collect as a result of this process for marketing purposes.
In addition you should also make sure that information or material you wish to place on the Website about anyone living is only posted with their prior knowledge and consent. If the person is under the legal age to enter into agreements (typically 18 years old), you represent that you have obtained the consent of the parent or guardian of the person under the legal age to enter into agreements. In all cases, you must make the implications of the consent clear to the person (or, if applicable, to the parent/guardian).
iv) Your Opinions and Comments:
If you participate in discussions on our message boards, or post messages on our blogs or Facebook accounts, we may capture that information.
v) Your Use of the Website:
While you use our Website, we may collect information based on your interaction with our Website or from the devices or computers you use to access the Website, including web log information, page views and IP addresses, all on an anonymized basis.
vi) Survey Answers:
The voluntary Surveys on MyHeritage (the "Surveys") collect, preserve and analyze self-reported information related to physical and other personal traits, demography, household, lifestyle, habits, preferences, hobbies and interests, opinions, family, occupation, health, psychological and cognitive traits and other similar information (collectively, the "Survey Research Information").
vii) Health Family Tree:
The Health Family Tree allows you to enter information concerning health conditions, physical traits and other personal traits about yourself and your immediate family members (collectively, the "Health Family Tree Information").
How do we use your personal information?
i) To provide the Service:
We primarily use your personal information to let you know about new features or other offers of interest from MyHeritage, or to address customer service needs and requests.
We also use your personal information to fulfill the purposes for which you have provided the personal information, such as displaying your family tree, calculating a relationship path between you and another relative, printing your family tree poster upon your request, processing your subscription; and with respect to the DNA Services - processing your DNA samples, conducting genetic analysis and providing you with the DNA Reports, and storing the DNA samples, DNA Results and DNA Reports. So that you get the most out of the Service, we will also use your personal information to serve you Smart Matches™ for your family tree, or to enable you and other members of the MyHeritage community to contact each other, to suggest relatives you may invite to your site as members, as well as to provide product and Website updates and newsletters. See section on Privacy Preferences below to learn how you can opt out or change your privacy preferences.
By providing us with personal information, you acknowledge the transfer of personal information to and in the United States and to the processing of personal information in the United States. You accept that the DNA samples will be stored in the United States as provided in the Terms and Conditions. MyHeritage will take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of personal information are done in accordance with applicable law and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests. Accordingly, transfers are limited to countries which are recognized as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative arrangements are in place to protect your privacy rights, such as an intra-group transfer agreement. You have a right to contact us for more information about the safeguards we have put in place.
ii) To verify your identity:
To verify and carry out financial transactions relating to payments you make online.
iii) To communicate with you:
We may communicate with you for the purpose of informing you of changes or additions to MyHeritage or of any of our products and services or to seek feedback from you on the Service. Our communications with you will primarily be via email, but may be made via telephone, direct mail or another method of communication in select circumstances. You may also receive promotional offers from us. If you do not want to continue to receive such emails from us, you may opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe link listed in the email or by changing your Email Preferences. See section on Email Preferences below to learn how you can opt out or change your email preferences. If you wish to opt out of other methods of communication, please contact us by the contact information below.
iv) For internal business purposes:
In order to improve the Website and the Service or to develop new products and services, we may use your personal information for internal data analysis, studying how the Website is used, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of promotional campaigns.
v) To perform research:
If you voluntarily agreed to the DNA Informed Consent Agreement (the "Informed Consent") we may use the Survey Research Information, the Health Family Tree Information, DNA Results, DNA Reports and other DNA information for the purposes of research as specified in the Informed Consent.
If you agreed to the Informed Consent and voluntarily participate in any of the Surveys, we may use the Survey Research Information for the purposes of conducting research studies to better understand, among other things, the relation between genotypes and phenotypes. Discoveries made as a result of the Surveys may be used in the study of genealogy, anthropology, population genetics, personalized medicine, population health issues, cultures, trends (for example, to identify health risks, preventive measures, treatments, or spread of certain diseases), and other related topics. Survey Research Information is aggregated from multiple individuals. Personal identifiers (such as names, birth dates and specific locations, etc.) of those participants are removed. In publishing outcomes of studies resulting from the Surveys, only aggregated Survey Research Information without personal identifiers will be published or made available to the public. Your identity and the identity of your family members will not be disclosed by us in any publication of the Surveys research results. The aggregated information gathered from you and other users through the Surveys may be used in our marketing and advertisements, and such ads, emails, or promotional offers may be presented to you or targeted to you.
If you agreed to the Informed Consent and provide Health Family Tree Information, we may use the Health Family Tree Information for the purpose of conducting research. Discoveries made as a result of the Health Family Tree Information may be used in the study of genealogy, anthropology, population genetics, personalized medicine, population health issues, cultures, trends (for example, to identify health risks, preventive measures, treatments, or spread of certain diseases), and other related topics. Health Family Tree Information is aggregated from multiple individuals. Personal identifiers (such as names, birth dates and specific locations, etc.) of those participants are removed. In publishing outcomes of studies resulting from the Health Family Tree Information, only aggregated Health Family Tree Information without personal identifiers will be published or made available to the public. Your identity and the identity of your family members will not be disclosed by us in any publication of the Health Family Tree Information research results.
Under EU data protection law, all processing of personal information is justified by a "condition" for processing. In the majority of cases, any processing will be justified on the basis that:
- you have consented to the processing;
- the processing is necessary to perform a contract with you (e.g. processing your payments or creating your user account)
- the processing is necessary for us to comply with a relevant legal obligation; or
- the processing is in our legitimate commercial interests, subject to your interests and fundamental rights (e.g. analytics which we carry out of your use of the Website).
- Email Preferences: this allows you to control what marketing emails and other emails we send to you.
- Privacy Preferences: this allows you to control the information that others can see about you and your personal information. See extended details about Privacy Preferences.
In addition, the processing of "special category data" is only permitted where a relevant exemption exists. Special category data includes genetic information, which we process as part of the DNA Services, and any information about your ethnic origin. In both cases, the special category data is processed on the basis of your explicit consent.
Where the basis of processing is your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent, and therefore prevent that processing, at any time.
Will MyHeritage disclose any of my personal information to third parties?
In no case is the personal information provided by our users sold, licensed or otherwise shared by us with advertisers, sponsors, partners or other third parties. We will never sell or license DNA samples, DNA Results, DNA Reports or any other DNA information, to any third parties without your explicit informed consent, and we will never sell or license such information to insurance companies under any circumstances.
MyHeritage will not disclose any of your personal information except in very limited circumstances which are set out below.
i) In limited circumstances: (a) if required by law, regulatory authorities, legal process or to protect the rights or property of MyHeritage or other users (including outside your country of residence); (b) to enforce our Terms and Conditions; (c) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, confidentiality, reputation or property, and/or that of the MyHeritage Website Group, or others; (d) to prevent fraud or cybercrime; (e) to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain; or (f) to investigate rare cases involving reported abuse of our Privacy Policy.
ii) In an acquisition of MyHeritage: in the event that MyHeritage, or substantially all of its assets or stock are acquired, transferred, disposed of (in whole or part and including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), personal information will as a matter of course be one of the transferred assets.
iii) To third-party service providers: Under the protection of appropriate agreements, we use third parties to perform various tasks for us. For example, we use third party platforms to process payments from you or use a specialized DNA lab to extract, process and store your DNA samples. These third-parties are only given access to that information needed to perform their support functions, and are prohibited from using it for other purposes. With respect to processors outside the European Economic Area, we attempt to ensure adequate safeguards for your personal information, as required by applicable law.
iv) To your DNA Matches: If you use our DNA Services and DNA Matches are enabled, the DNA Reports will include a list of your potential relatives, based on DNA. Each one of the people who match your DNA will be able to see the amount of DNA they have in common with you and the predicted family relationship between you, and some of your personal information such as your display name, your country of residence, your ethnic estimate and other profile information, depending on your privacy settings.
May you refuse to provide personal information to MyHeritage?
Visitors may access some of our free services anonymously, such as the SuperSearch™ engine for historical records. Other services that we provide may be accessed by registering with a first name, last name, email address, gender, country and birth year, some of which are optional. To gain full access to the paid subscription-only features, appropriate billing information, and to purchase physical products such as family tree posters and family calendars, a shipping address is required. The amount of other personal information you decide to submit to MyHeritage is up to you but understand that your experience with the Website may be limited if you choose to provide no additional information. Most of the personal information submitted to the Service may be offered at your own discretion and is intended for personal and/or family use only. Naturally, withholding some personal information may compromise the usefulness of the Website for other family members.
How do you report, change or delete information about yourself or your family?
Deleting or amending your Public Profile, your Tree and your DNA Results and DNA Reports: Any information that you have uploaded into your tree or your profile and your DNA Results and DNA Reports is controlled by you and can be amended or deleted by you at any time. See information below on how to do this.
Deleting or amending information that others have posted about you or your family: If the information was posted in a family site where you are a member, you may delete it. See information below on how to do this. Otherwise, if you are not able to delete or amend such information posted by another member, then you should contact us using the contact information at the bottom of this document. We will then correspond with you to understand the specific information that you want to have deleted and will then proceed to delete it for you and resolve the matter quickly.
We will, if requested by you, destroy the DNA sample provided by you or your DNA sample which was provided to us by another person with your permission, at any time. To request destruction of your DNA sample, please contact us using the contact details indicated below.
In addition, you can, at any time, delete your DNA Results and DNA Reports from the Website by using the delete function from the "Manage DNA kits" page on the Website, or request MyHeritage Customer Support to do this for you.
For disputes or issues with other personal information on the Website about you: You may contact us using the contact information at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. If you are a registered member of the Website, and you contact us with a request pertaining to information that you entered into the Website, we ask that you communicate to us from the same email address that you used to register to the Website. Otherwise, we may need to verify your identity before considering your request.
Please note that where you or we delete content or your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent any such copy has been shared with others, was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or was copied or stored by other users.
Backup copies: Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies for a limited time for our internal business purposes but it will not be available to you or other Users.
How may you modify or delete information on the Website?
Any member may modify his/her personal information, including password, by logging into the Website, visiting the member profile via Account > My profile, and editing it, to update the information therein. At any time, members may modify or delete information and content items such as news articles and photos which they personally have posted to their site.
At any time you may delete information that you have posted on the family site. As site manager you can also delete all information and content that other site members have posted on your family site. As a site member, you can delete information that the site manager or other site members have posted about you.
Your entire family site and all its contents may be deleted from the Account > Site settings > General > Administration link "Delete my site".
Deleting an entire family tree (but not the entire family site) may be done from Family Tree > Manage trees, click the "Delete" link next to tree you wish to delete.
Deleting any individual from your family tree (but not the entire tree) may be done via the online family tree viewer in your family site: click "Family tree" to visit the tree, find the person in the "Find a person..." box, then click Options > Delete this Person on the side panel.
You may delete a photo album by clicking "Photos" in the navigation of your family site. Click any album on the side panel, then click More actions > Delete album.
You may delete a photo (not an entire album) by clicking "Photos" in the navigation of your family site, find the photo in the album viewer, then click the wheel icon next to the photo and select Delete.
You may delete your member account from the Account > Account Settings link "Delete my account".
In addition, you can, at any time, delete your DNA Results and DNA Reports from the Website by using the delete function from the "Manage DNA kits" page on the Website, or request MyHeritage Customer Support to do this for you.
You may request us at any time to delete all Surveys you have completed. Such deletion requests shall always be honored by us promptly. We shall also delete your completed Surveys if your account on MyHeritage is deleted. Please note that due to the de-identification of certain Survey Research Information, any research or studies using anonymized or aggregate information that has already begun, studies that have been completed, and any study results or findings that have been published prior to your Survey deletion request or MyHeritage account deletion cannot be reversed, undone, or removed.
Health Family Tree Information may be changed and/or deleted by you at any time. We shall also delete your Health Family Tree Information if your account on MyHeritage is deleted. Please note that due to the de-identification of certain Health Family Tree Information, any research or studies using anonymized or aggregate information that has already begun, studies that have been completed, and any study results or findings that have been published prior to your Health Family Tree Information deletion cannot be reversed, undone, or removed.
In case you need extra assistance, you may email us at firstname.lastname@example.com to request us to help delete any information that you wish to have deleted, and your request shall be carried out promptly by our staff unless it is examined and believed to be illegitimate.
IP Addresses
We need your IP address to deliver the Website and our Service to you and to help diagnose problems with our server. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information such as geographic distribution of our members. When you visit the Service for the first time, we use your IP address to suggest the Service to you in the language deemed the most appropriate for the geographical region from which it originates. Server logs maintain IP addresses for a period of one month and are used to investigate suspected abuse of our Service.
As you browse the Internet, a trail of electronic information is left at each web site you visit. This information, which is sometimes called "clickstream" data, can be collected and stored by a web site's server. Clickstream data can tell us the type of computer and browsing software you use, the address of the web site from which you linked to the Website. We may use clickstream data to determine how much time visitors spend on each page of the Website and how they navigate through the Website. We will only use this information to improve or customize the Website.
Cookies and Non-Personal Information
We make use of browser cookies and similar automated means of data collection technologies to enhance your experience of visiting the website, for example, to avoid displaying certain messages to you more than once, to save your log in details so you won't need to re-enter them each time you wish to log in or to remember the display language you previously selected so you won't need to select it each time you visit the website. You can disable or delete cookies from your computer if you wish, but certain parts of our service may not work correctly or at all if you do so. For more information about our use of cookies and similar automated means of data collection, and how you can choose to disable or delete cookies, please see our Cookie Policy. Our Cookie Policy is considered a part of, and incorporated into, this Privacy Policy, and this Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our Cookie Policy.
Other non-personal information
When you visit our Website, we may automatically collect non-personal information about you, such as the website from which you have come to our Website, your computer type, screen resolution, Operating System version, mobile device details (if applicable) and Internet browser. We may also collect non-personal information such as demographic data, for example your geographic area. Non-personal information also includes personal information that has been aggregated in a manner such that the end-product does not personally identify you or any other user of the Website, for example, by using personal information to calculate the percentage of our users from a particular country or who are female. Because non-personal information does not personally identify you, we may use such non-personal information for any purpose. In addition, we reserve the right to share such non-personal information.
Who will be able to view your family site?
This is determined by your Privacy Preferences (see appropriate section below).
If your family site is set up on the Website as a private site, only those with a valid username and password will have access to your site. Initially, the family site manager (creator) is the only one with access to the site. The site manager may invite other members to the site via email, and only recipients of this invitation will be able to gain access to the site after becoming members in the Website. It is then the responsibility of the site members to help keep the site secure by offering password access only to appropriate relatives and friends - those they want to have access to the site. Each user is responsible to protect his or her username and password. See section "What are the implications of inviting other people to your family site?" below. By default, family sites are accessible to guests (i.e., the general public) but guests cannot view information about living people in your family tree.
Who will be able to find information in your family site?
Information about deceased individuals in your family tree, including photos, can be found by other people using the research facilities on the websites of the MyHeritage Website Group. These facilities help other people research their past and find relatives who are also in your family tree. If you do not want others to find information in your family tree, you can make your family trees and photo albums private and exclude them from the MyHeritage historical search engines. See section on "Privacy Preferences" below. Unless your family site is set to private, public search engines such as Google may find your site and make it accessible via search engines to guests (i.e., the general public), except that guests cannot view information about living people in your family tree.
Health Family Tree Information you added will only be visible to you and not to other family site members or any other users.
What are Smart Matches™ and how do they affect your privacy?
Smart Matches™ is a technology developed and owned by MyHeritage to find matches between family trees, by looking for individuals that they have in common, and bridging across differences in spelling, phonetics, facts and languages. Smart Matches™ are very useful in that they facilitate discoveries of unknown relatives and reuniting families whose ties have been disconnected over time.
Other MyHeritage users may receive notifications regarding Smart Matches™ between individuals in their family tree and individuals in your family tree. Smart Matches™ may also be found on living individuals in your tree. If you are concerned about the privacy of your family tree, to the extent that you do not wish to allow potential relatives to find and view parts of it, you can disable Smart Matches™ for your family tree(s). See "Privacy Preferences" below. By default, Smart Matches™ are enabled.
What are DNA Matches and how do they affect your privacy?
DNA Matches find relatives by locating users of the DNA Services who share segments of DNA inherited from a common ancestor.
If a DNA Match is found between you (or any other person of which you are the DNA manager), and another individual whose DNA Results are stored in our database, both you and such individual will be notified of the match (including the name of the match, the match quality, predicted relationship and family tree details) provided, that, both of you enabled DNA matching in your privacy settings.
DNA Matching may have significant personal implications because they may reveal unexpected family connections. If you use the DNA Services and are concerned about the implications of DNA Matching, you can disable DNA Matches for your profile and for any other profile of which you are the DNA manager. By default, DNA Matches are enabled. When DNA Matching is disabled, your DNA will not be matched with other people, no DNA Matches will be found and any DNA Matches found previously will be deleted.
Who will be able to view your DNA Reports?
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Rodgers focused on helping Suarez
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is focusing on Luis Suarez's rehabilitation while the club decide whether to appeal against his 10-match ban for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic.
Reds officials, who received the written report of the independent disciplinary panel, have until midday today to opt to contest a punishment Rodgers described as "severe". The Northern Irishman, speaking before the report arrived, was also critical of the intent to punish and not re-educate in the panel's ruling.
That is something the club will address with the help of renowned sports psychologist Dr Steve Peters, who has been working one day at the club's Melwood training ground most of the season. Rodgers said: "That is something which remains in confidence and private to ourselves but we will be able to put in place the various needs in order for him to get that help,"
He added "As managers we look after the technical and physical side but the wellness and mental side of players can sometimes get overlooked.
"It is a very important aspect of modern life and he will have all the help in order to improve and make that behaviour not happen again."
Rodgers denied Suarez had a serious mental flaw in his make-up - even though the player had no explanation for his actions last weekend.
"In modern life, whether you are a footballer, plumber, joiner, bricklayer, work in a warehouse, you are not immune to issues and problems," he added.
"All we are saying is that whatever the behaviour issue is we will do everything we can to support that person and that person is now Luis Suarez.
"I asked Luis what was he thinking and he couldn't answer it. This is just an impulsive, inherent thing which came at that moment.
"The world-class talent he is, which has wowed many people with his breathtaking qualities this year, there is that little wire in his brain which sometimes makes him act differently and that is what we are trying to help make sure doesn't happen again."

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Love lettuce wraps. Love burritos. Love the crumbs you clean from the toaster just before it's about to catch fire. So when it comes to food, I am not picky.
I bust my tail — in the pool, on the trails — six days a week just to be able to eat everything within view. Otherwise I would have the same circumference as the late James Gandolfini.
As Mark Twain said, "Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company."
Pick your reason, the 21st century will go down as one of extremism. We overdo everything. Work. Exercise. Even the size of our TVs.
Perhaps this is how we offset our fears — of terrorism, of job loss, of whatever it is you're fearing lately (the next Katy Perry hit?). Binge living: the answer to our runaway paranoia.
That's a big setup for a story on competitive eating, but I always like to add context; they teach that in journalism school, where the other thing I took away from long afternoons learning about semicolons is that you'll probably never make a living at writing. Turns out that was pretty true.
You are also, let me warn you, reading something written by someone with 30 pot stickers still swirling in his tank. They are also known as gyoza, these greasy little dumplings filled with mystery meat. Pork? Maybe beef. Perhaps a mixture: poeef. Sounds vaguely French. Poeeeeef, s'il vous plait.
It was my first eating contest. There were plates of gyoza in front of me, a little corduroyed around the edges from too long in the Little Tokyo sun.
"Just don't vomit, guys," some judge tells us. Hmm, so it's kind of a fancy joint?
My goal: 50 pot stickers in the allotted 10 minutes.
At the microphone is Sam Barclay, a straw-hatted host for Major League Eating, an outfit that organizes up to 80 such contests a year in the U.S. and Canada.
"Too many of us are broken souls," the wry Australian tells a crowd of 500. "We kneel by the side of the road, only to be covered by the dust of our enemies' hoofs."
Weird, huh? But amusing. I was kneeling by the side of the road just the other day, praying a little, coated in dust.
Around me today, some of the best in the biz, including Joey Chestnut, who's always winning that Coney Island hot dog challenge. No. 1 in the world, Chestnut has lots of people who would like to dethrone him, including me.
"That your real name? Joey Chestnut?" I'd asked a few minutes earlier. "It's a great name."
He said yes, though growing up it was difficult because classmates would poke fun: wing nuts, walnuts. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
"Kids are evil," he said, and I think most people would agree.
Every college dorm has a guy like Chestnut, 29, quick to smile and determined not to spend his life in some cubicle, determined against all odds to enjoy what he does — in this case, pounding food down his gullet. Somebody probably told him he'd never make a living at it either.
At last year's Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship, Chestnut ate 266 of these pot stickers — 10 pounds in 10 minutes — and until you try it, you have no appreciation for what a feat that is.
Competitive eating is everything your mother taught you not to do at age 3. Contestants smash the food into their mouths, then python the grub down their throats.
If fellow competitors start to hurl, one veteran warns, "just close your eyes and go to your happy place."
Just before we start, I notice a stray hair in my plate of 25 pot stickers — not mine, the hair is darker, with more product. Immediately, I go to my happy place.
"Begin!" yells the MC, so we do.
Look, this event is to eating what mud-wrestling is to Mozart. Excessive, not artful, yet oddly revealing of the human spirit. I downed 30 of the little suckers (and one human hair), right on the heels of Chestnut with 251 (and no human hairs).
Matt Stonie, a 21-year-old in skinny jeans who's majoring in (irony alert) nutrition, wins with a world record of 268, earning the $2,000 first prize.
If this isn't the next Vince Vaughn movie, I'll eat my hat. And your hat. And the cap of the old codger next to you.
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All Kayla Stra has wanted to do in life since she was a little girl was ride horses and win races. Growing up in Australia, she was pretty good at it too. She took out her jockey's license at 17 and eventually became her nation's poster girl for racing with more than 500 victories.
But Stra wanted more. Sure, she'd won the City of Marion Stakes in 2005 aboard a gelding named Navy Shaker while serving as an apprentice at her hometown track in Adelaide. But somehow it wasn't enough for a young woman who talked her parents into buying her a pony at age 8 and who bought and trained a horse to run in picnic races (unregistered horse races) before becoming a jockey.
"I just wanted to challenge myself to be a better person and a better jockey," Stra said. "Kind of just grow. I knew there were more challenges out there for me. I'd kinda gotten into a routine in Australia that wasn't exciting to me anymore."
So she packed her belongings and headed to America, where she had family. Her maternal grandparents live in Huntington Beach and she also has an uncle and two younger cousins living in the U.S. She began riding at the now defunct Oak Tree meet at Santa Anita in 2007 and won her first race soon thereafter aboard Flying Bearcat at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Things seemed to be falling into place for Stra, or were they? She soon discovered she wasn't in Australia anymore. Female jockeys play by different rules in the U.S. Horse racing is a male-dominated sport in this nation and you'd better be willing to take your lumps along the way if you're a woman.
"I had no idea they would give me such a hard time here and it would be so difficult," she said. "I'm a hard worker and a good rider and I thought that's all I would need to get going. I wasn't so much into the walking and talking to people (thing). I just wanted to get on horses. I didn't know I was going to have to put myself out there in a different kind of way."
It's called politics, and Stra didn't want to play the game.
Suddenly all those victories in her native country seemed so long ago. She soon found herself riding one, maybe two if she was lucky, horses a day, and they were mostly hopeless longshots.
"I got so depressed and frustrated," she said. "I was just really sour. I remember walking out of the track one morning and (trainer) Bob Baffert said to me, 'I have a horse for you,' or 'I'll find one for you.' I think I said to him, 'If I waited for a horse from you I don't know how long I'd be waiting.'
"He'd said that to me so many times and I'd heard that from everybody. 'Oh, I'll find you a horse. I'll find you a horse.' I finally realized I couldn't be yelling at people (though), especially somebody like Bob Baffert who I'd like to ride for eventually."
Stra decided it was time to make another career move. She relocated to Golden Gate Fields in Northern California in October 2009, but not before making another decision that almost ended her life.
At age 24, she tried to commit suicide.
"My personal life had gotten pretty bad," she said.
At first she didn't tell her family what she'd done, fearing they would be disappointed and worried about her. Today she doesn't have a problem talking about the suicide attempt, only the manner in which she tried to do it.
"I probably shouldn't get into the details," she said. "It was pretty gross."
Stra remembers waking up in the hospital and realizing she had to go somewhere, and quickly.
"I begged them to let me go because I had to ride opening day at Golden Gate Fields," she said. "So no joke, I talked them into letting me out. I told them that's what I lived for and it would make me feel better and I just needed to get back to work, to start fresh up there.
"Driving from the hospital to Golden Gate Fields, I made it there two hours before first post. I rode six races that day, for big trainers too. Guys like Steve Sherman. I think I had one for (Jerry) Hollendorfer too. I mean, it was a big deal."
And 2010 turned into a big deal for Stra. Given a second chance at life, she proved she could win races in the U.S. as well as Australia. She enjoyed a career year, winning 54 races from 523 mounts (10 percent success rate) and banked more than $1 million in earnings.
She said she learned how to deal with the emotions that led to the suicide attempt.
"I didn't want to wake up (in the hospital)," Stra said. "But I did and I realized I had a fresh start. People were really interested in what I had to offer."
That fresh start included a return to Southern California after a one-year stay at Golden Gate. Her grandfather was in the early stages of Alzheimer's and she knew her grandmother needed her help. As she said, "I just thought it was time to come back because my family is so important."
Stra, 27, has been back for nearly three years. She's still not riding the number of races or caliber of horses she'd prefer, but she also is a much different person than the one who tried to take her life. She's gotten into hot yoga, an exercise class that is done in a room where the temperature is usually maintained between 95 and 100 degrees. She had a son, Brys, with boyfriend Gus Headley in November 2012.
She'll soon be opening her own hot yoga studio near Santa Anita. Her whole life is not wrapped up into horse racing anymore. She has diversions and a young son to concentrate on when her professional life is maybe not headed in the direction she wants.
Stra is as determined as ever to become a successful jockey, but it no longer consumes her.
"Yeah, I'm determined because this is my last (go-around)," she said. "I've always said it's my life, but now that I have all these (other) things it's easier for me to just enjoy it, and maybe that helps take pressure off. It's not my whole life. Now I can just enjoy it and be thankful for what I do have. I think that's a huge difference to just enjoy something and not put too much stress or pressure on yourself.
"I know I'm a good rider. I know I've come a long way since I started when I was 17. I'm confident in who I am and what I can do."


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Theresa May – Murdering Queers!
Fury as deportations department get top award.
Stonewall equality conference faces LGBT protest.
Gay Mafia Watch has been documenting this ongoing betrayal of the LGBT community for several years now. It looks as if "Stonewall's Adversity Champions" are causing another storm…
Just when we thought they'd learned their lesson, our favourite pseudo-equality charity has gone and done it again. What is wrong with Stonewall?
London-based immigration rights group "No Borders" claim equality charity is "celebrating the managers of detention and deportation" after the Home Office was given the top spot in Stonewall's annual index of "top 100 employers" in Britain.
Once a respected civil rights campaigning group, Stonewall has been consumed and transformed beyond recognition, motivated by power and greed.
Recipients of yet another meaningless Stonewall accolade this year, the Home Office is the lead government department with a number of subsidiaries including the UK Borders Agency which is directly responsible for forcibly removing failed asylum seekers (including LGBT people) fleeing persecution, rape, torture, and death such as Asylum Seeker from Uganda, Brenda Namigadde – who was at the high court fighting her deportation only last week.
Not only has this award been given to one of the most despicable elements of the government, Stonewall's made a special effort to endorse Conservative MP Theresa May as some sort of hero behind this achievement. Neither have anything to be proud about.
The current Home Secretary who also has the controversial title "Equality Minister" recently faced a short-lived campaign calling for her dismissal on the grounds of her utterly despicable parliamentary record on LGBT equality which includes voting:
- – Against abolishing Section 28.
– Against an equal Age of Consent.
– Against Gay Adoption Rights.
– Against Lesbian Fertility Rights.
– Abstained on Gender Recognition.
Even worse – she's being touted as the Keynote Speaker for Stonewall's forthcoming 2011 Workplace Conference, sponsored by Barclays Bank. The event generates a great deal of revenue for Stonewall, charging up to £450 a ticket.
As this news spreads across social networks, we can report the LGBT Community is NOT happy. Stonewall better brace itself for yet ANOTHER revolt from the very people they claim to represent.
Activist groups are planning a protest at Stonewall's 2011 Workplace Conference on Friday 18th March outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London.
Not only will Theresa May be attending, but she'll be joined by an array of other nasties! – none of them deserving of any type of award relating to equality or human rights.
For more info on the protest email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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It's time to….
Sack Theresa May!
Sack Ben Summerskill!
After her appointment in May 2010 as "Equalities Minister" the Prime Minister faced a barrage of calls for her to be sacked. One group of LGBT activists even set up a website www.sacktheresamay.co.uk arguing that her political history makes her unsuitable to hold the position as Equalities Minister, boasting a facebook group with over 75,000 members.
"We do not think she is at all qualified to be Minister for Equality, we do not consider her to be committed to the cause of equality and for this reason would question her ability to be effective in this position. Furthermore, her appointment is symbolically counter-productive as it suggests there is not a better person for the job who can be a real role model for the campaign for equal rights." – (Campaign to Sack Theresa May Spokesperson)
Stonewall's Chief Executive, Ben Summerskill doesn't acknowledge any this, firmly believing the Tories now "need to be forgiven" believing the lie their ideology has changed, continuing it's agenda of pimping out the gay community to big business through it's rigged awards schemes. In reality Conservative values have merely evolved in order to appear more socially acceptable.
Giving a platform to the disgraceful human being that is Theresa May at such a high-profile conference, and dishing out awards to the Home Office reaffirms this reality.
Theresa May is Murdering Queers!
Stonewall should be on the side of the real grass roots campaigners, for whom gay rights is a matter of life or death, instead it prefers to share crates of champagne with police commissioners, the directors of Barclays Bank and Goldman Sachs, whilst offering scumbag politicians a standing ovation.
Nine months after the initial campaign for her to resign as Equalities Minister, Theresa May is STILL under pressure from others not to deport LGBT asylum seekers, such as Brenda Namigadde – who had to take her battle to the High Court only last week to obtain a temporary injunction against Stonewall's "number one employer" – the Home Office.
Brenda is a Lesbian from Uganda, a country which regularly tortures, rapes and kills LGBT people. Government ministers must take responsibility or prepare to be held to account, charged with the same guilt as their international collegues.
On the exact same say Brenda was in court, news broke of the brutal murder of prominent Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato. As the Home Office maintains it's silence, and refuses amnesty to Brenda and countless others in a similar position action must now be taken.
Considering her failure to save Brenda and others, Theresa May's pale apologies for her past voting record in response to the short-lived "Sack Theresa May" furore must now be dismissed, along with her – and all who sail with her.
Stonewall's praising of the government at this time is unacceptable, once again colluding with the very people who want to harm the LGBT people. It's also time for Ben Summerskill to go too.
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If approved, new school could be ready in 2015
If a bond referendum passes next May in a special election, the new school could be ready for moving in before the start of the 2015-2016 school year, reported Gary Benson of ICS Consulting to the Moose Lake School Board on Monday, November 19.
ICS Consulting has been hired by the school board to coordinate and conduct the process in advance of a special election, and, if the voters approve the referendum, will continue to act as the construction manager. An architect will be hired later in the process.
Benson explained the steps: gather information about what is needed in a new school from the staff, present the information to the task force for discussion in January and bring a final recommendation to the board, send the plans to the state for review and comment, conduct a district information campaign, and then hold the election on May 21.
If the voters approve the referendum, the design phase will begin, and then a call for bids will be sent out for the project. Once a bid has been awarded, construction is expected to take 14 months and be completed June 2015.
Although Benson had presented two scenarios, for a May election or a November election, it was pointed out that the board had decided at the last meeting on a May election.
Benson agreed said that the timelines would be better for a campaign and for bidding with an election on May 21.
Thirty members from the community had been appointed to a task force and met previously to bring a recommendation to the board. It was said that those members will be contacted once again, and other interested community members could replace those that are not able to serve this time.
"We can complete the work that we started a year and a half ago," said Benson.
Jennifer Piekarski from KDV Auditors presented the 2011-2012 school audit.
"You're doing well despite how the state is messing with your funding and declining enrollment but you have to keep a healthy fund balance," she told the board.
The audit showed that the Average Daily Membership decreased from 701.73 in 2011 to 676.14 in 2012 for all students. The ADM had been 727.40 in 2008.
The number of students coming into the school district under open enrollment has increased from 151.87 in 2008 to 167.17 in 2012.
The revenue from local property taxes had increased from $418,599 in 2008 to $576,856 in 2012. However, the revenue from state sources has decreased from $5,365,111 in 2008 to $5,154,798 in 2012.
Elementary Principal Kraig Koneitzko reported that the Average Daily Progress program has been replaced with the Continuous Improvement School Improvement Plan.
He added that the elementary school had fallen a bit short and will have to write a school improvement plan. The plan measures proficiency in the students' growth and achievement.
A team received training, and Russ Davidson will be coming in to work with fifth and sixth grades in math.
High School Principal Billie Jo Steen reported that a TXT4Life grant enabled training for students in TXT4Life and QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Suicide Prevention.
In her report, Steen stated, "Our MLHS LIFE students were instrumental in working with the Carlton County Collaborative to secure this multi-million dollar grant for northeastern Minnesota. The Minnesota Crisis Line that handles the TXT4Life texts now gets more texts than phone calls every day, and has become the model for suicide prevention help lines in the country."
Board Member Julie Peterson said that the program is working well. The school is getting calls from Colorado and California to learn more about the TXT4Life program.
"It is neat to see that, especially since it came from our kids," she said.
A working meeting of the board was set for Monday, December 3, at 6 p.m.
The monthly meeting of the board was set for Monday, December 17, at 6 p.m., and a special meeting with Benson was set for Tuesday, December 18, at 6 p.m.


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The Really Good Times are Over
We really do not realize how good we had it. Sure, we could apply that to budget surpluses and the time before the rise of global terrorism, but in this case I am talking about the predictable advancement of graphics due to both design expertise and improvements in process technology. Moore's law has been exceptionally kind to graphics. We can look back and when we plot the course of these graphics companies, they have actually outstripped Moore in terms of transistor density from generation to generation. Most of this is due to better tools and the expertise gained in what is still a fairly new endeavor as compared to CPUs (the first true 3D accelerators were released in the 1993/94 timeframe).
The complexity of a modern 3D chip is truly mind-boggling. To get a good idea of where we came from, we must look back at the first generations of products that we could actually purchase. The original 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics was comprised of a raster chip and a texture chip, each contained approximately 1 million transistors (give or take) and were made on a then available .5 micron process (we shall call it 500 nm from here on out to give a sense of perspective with modern process technology). The chips were clocked between 47 and 50 MHz (though often could be clocked up to 57 MHz by going into the init file and putting in "SET SST_GRXCLK=57"… btw, SST stood for Sellers/Smith/Tarolli, the founders of 3Dfx). This revolutionary graphics card at the time could push out 47 to 50 megapixels and had 4 MB of VRAM and was released in the beginning of 1996.
My first 3D graphics card was the Orchid Righteous 3D. Voodoo Graphics was really the first successful consumer 3D graphics card. Yes, there were others before it, but Voodoo Graphics had the largest impact of them all.
In 1998 3Dfx released the Voodoo 2, and it was a significant jump in complexity from the original. These chips were fabricated on a 350 nm process. There were three chips to each card, one of which was the raster chip and the other two were texture chips. At the top end of the product stack was the 12 MB cards. The raster chip had 4 MB of VRAM available to it while each texture chip had 4 MB of VRAM for texture storage. Not only did this product double performance from the Voodoo Graphics, it was able to run in single card configurations at 800x600 (as compared to the max 640x480 of the Voodoo Graphics). This is the same time as when NVIDIA started to become a very aggressive competitor with the Riva TnT and ATI was about to ship the Rage 128.


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An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of your heartbeat. If you have an arrhythmia, your healthcare provider may recommend a procedure called catheter ablation. It can improve or even cure your condition.
This procedure guides a wire into your heart to destroy small areas of heart tissue that may be causing your abnormal heartbeat. Heat (radiofrequency) or cold energy (cryoablation) are the 2 most common ways to destroy abnormal heart tissue. It is an alternative to long- term or lifelong medication therapy. It is also an option when medicine fails to control the heart rhythm problem.
Catheter ablation can take anywhere from 3 to 6 hours. It usually done in an electrophysiology lab by a cardiac electrophysiologist. This is a cardiologist with special training in the management of abnormal heart rhythms.
Before the procedure starts, you will be given intravenous (IV) medicine to help you relax. Some people even fall asleep. In some cases, you may be put to sleep with anesthesia.
After the medicine has taken effect, your doctor will numb an area in your groin. Rarely the arm or neck is used. Next, your doctor will insert several IV lines (IVs) into a blood vessel and advance them to the heart. Through these IVs, your doctor can insert several wires and a small catheter into the heart. A type of X-ray helps the doctor view the heart and wires as the procedure is happening.
After the catheters are positioned, your doctor sends heat or cold energy from the tip of the catheter to destroy (ablate) the problem area of cells. After ablation, your doctor will test your heart to make sure that the abnormal heart rhythm is no longer present. Medicine to stimulate the heart may also be used to test for abnormal heart rhythms.
Most people do not feel pain during the procedure. You may sense mild discomfort in your chest or shoulder area. After the ablation, your doctor will remove the guide wire and catheter from your chest. Pressure is applied to the insertion site to stop any bleeding.
After the catheter ablation, you will be told to lie still for 4 to 6 hours to decrease the risk of bleeding. Your heart rhythm will be monitored. You will be offered pain medicine if needed. Depending on how your heart is doing and what type of ablation procedure was done, you may be able to go home the same day. In other cases, you may need to stay overnight.
In the days after the procedure, you may have mild symptoms such as an achy chest and discomfort or bruising in the area where the catheter was inserted. You might also notice skipped heartbeats or irregular heart rhythms.
Avoid driving for the following day. Don't lift anything over 10 pounds for the next few days. Avoid exercise for the next 5 days, or until you see your doctor for follow up.
Depending on the type of arrhythmia being treated, catheter ablation can have a success rate of more than 90%. Some people may need to have the procedure again or other treatments for heart arrhythmias. Your doctor may want you to stay on medicine to help control your heartbeat.
After your catheter ablation, follow all instructions from your doctor. This is especially important for follow-up visits, medicine schedules, and safe levels of physical activity.
Contact your doctor right away if you have:
Unusual pain or swelling
A fever of 100.4°F (38°C) or higher
Excessive bleeding
Consistent irregularities in your heartbeat


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text: I was musing over trends in computing, with vast amounts of power going into machines, coming out as heat, and then being dumped into the environment via equally massive A/C systems. Or at the very least, a really big fan. Wouldn't it be nice to reclaim some of that power? For the purposes of thermodynamics CPUs are basically just big resistors. Put a voltage across them, current flows, heat is generated. Imagine using the difference in T between the CPUs and the ambient environment to make more electricity. Replace the A/C with a heat driven engine that turns a generator,. Here's where the irony comes in - the CPUs aren't hot enough. room temp is around 300K and the CPUs are at most another 50K above that, giving a pathetic Carnot efficiency. Imagine if the chips were designed to run really, really, really hot. For instance, 600. At that point the heat engine could run at about 50% efficiency and one could recover about half the power that went in. Silicon doesn't actually melt until around 1700K, so there's possibly even some leeway above that. Have to use something else instead of metal for the traces though, since aluminum will have melted off at 933K. Silicon might not work at those temperatures either but there's likely some other substance that is a semiconductor at 1000K. The boot sequence should be "interesting" if it becomes necessary to preheat the CPU to a very high temperature before it can run. Obviously this is not hardware you'd want on your desk but with data centers churning along at 50 megawatts perhaps it's worth thinking about creative ways to get the maximum amount of crunch per watt. You've doubtless all seen suggestions that exotic CPUs be run at superconducting temperatures. Probably this is the first time you've heard anybody suggest they be run at incredibly high temperatures instead. And as a side benefit the next Venus lander could have a computer that will run at ambient temperature. Regards, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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This is one of the best sight rail for most paintball gun. This sight rail mounts directly on most paintball gun without any modifications. It is all metal with mil-specs weaver rail and easy to install. You can mount anything you want on it, such as, sight, scopes and carry handle


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