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25613032#1 | Nunavut Kamatsiaqtut Help Line | Since becoming operational on 15 January 1990, the Help Line has operated 365 days a year. In 1994, it expanded its services to include the Nunavut AIDS Information Line. The calling area also includes northern Quebec and other remote areas of Canada. |
25613032#2 | Nunavut Kamatsiaqtut Help Line | In 1994 and 2003, Kamatsiaqtut hosted the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention annual conference in Iqaluit, Nunavut's capital. |
25613082#0 | You Can Dream of Me | "You Can Dream of Me" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Steve Wariner. It was released in November 1985 as the first single from the album "Life's Highway". The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of twenty-two weeks on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Wariner wrote the song with former Orleans frontman John Hall. |
25613094#0 | Dinaman | Dinaman was a Hindi language weekly magazine founded in 1965. It was published in New Delhi. The newsweekly was started by Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya', a pioneer of modern Hindi poetry. Subsequent editors of the magazine included the Hindi poet Raghuvir Sahay, K.L. Nandan, and Satish Jha. "Dinaman" was published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (now The Times Group). Some of its staff members achieved national political stature. Shrikant Verma, a poet, was nominated to India's parliamentary Upper House in 1976, the Rajya Sabha and was a close adviser of the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. Poet Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena and critic Vinod Bharadwaj, Prayag Shukl and Uday Pratap went on achieve India's high literary honours the Sahitya Academy Puruskar, equivalent of the US Pulitzer Prize. |
25613094#1 | Dinaman | The magazine was considered a trendsetter in Hindi journalism. It also played a significant role in the development of the genre of Hindi theatre criticism. |
25613101#0 | Strandberg | Strandberg is a surname of Swedish origin which may refer to: |
25613103#0 | Shreedhar Swami | Sri Shreedhara Swami Maharaj (Devanagari: श्री श्रीधर स्वामी Maharaj, Kannada:ಶ್ರೀ ಶ್ರೀಧರ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ Maharaj) (7 December 1908 – 19 April 1973) was a prominent Marathi-Kannada saint and religious poet in the Hindu tradition. Shreedhar Swami was a devotee of Lord Ram and a disciple of Samarth Ramdas. |
25613103#1 | Shreedhar Swami | Sri Shreedhara Swami Maharaj was born in a Brahmin family to Narayan Rao and Kamalabai Deglurkar on 7 December 1908 in Lad Chincholi, Karnataka. He was a devotee of Lord Ram and a disciple of Samarth Ramdas. When Shreedhara Swami was 3 years old he lost his father and thereafter his mother and elder brother Trimbak took care of the family. Young Shreedhara was admitted to a school in Hyderabad for his primary education. Since the very early days he was spiritually inclined. One recorded incident from his early childhood is as follows: He had once fallen very ill and had lost a lot of days at school because of it. Thus he feared that he might fail in the examinations. His mother then told him to constantly chant the name of Lord Ram and that he would see him through the exams. He solemnly started doing that so much so that he finally did not do any studies at all and all the time chanted the name of Ram. On the day of examination he went without reading anything and to the surprise of everybody he answered every question so nicely that he did secure first rank.
Shreedhar Swami's elder brother died when he (Shreedhar) was just ten. His mother, unable to cope with the shock and prolonged illness, soon followed him. After her death Shreedhar Swami went to Gulbarga to live with his aunt and continued his education there. After spending a few years in Gulbarga, he headed for Pune where he lived in an orphanage for sometime. Here his urge for spiritual enlightenment grew and on the suggestion of one Mr. Palnitkar, he embarked on a journey to Sajjangad with the intent of seeking spiritual knowledge at the place where Shri Samarth Ramdas had resided nearly three hundred years ago. |
25613103#2 | Shreedhar Swami | During the course of time, he got well-acquainted with one of his teachers at school, Shri palnitkar Guruji. Discovering Sridhar's intense inclination towards spiritualism, he advised him to solicit the blessings of Samartha Ramdas Swamiji. Sajjangad was the abode of Swami Samarth Ramdas for the last six years of his life. Legend has it that a stone structure (his Samadhi) surged out of its own at the cremation place of Shri Samartha on the very next day of his nirvana.
His yearning for a spiritual awakening at this point can be gauged by the fact that he started to dispose all his money to the poor and the remaining he just threw. He liked a particular sweet dish, so he bought it, kept it in front of Lord Ram's idol and then mixed cow dung in it and ate it. Now he could not even think about the dish he once liked so much. On the day of departure to Sajjangad, Which also coincided with Vijayadashmi, he suddenly felt that he was going there to find out the creator of the universe who had control over the living, nonliving things and also time and space.
After one and a half years of having arrived at Sajjangad, Samarth Ramdas himself blessed Shreedhar Swami. Later, he directed him to go south to Karnataka and spread the real message of Sanatan Vedic Dharma. |
25613103#3 | Shreedhar Swami | For the next twelve years, Shreedhar Swami toured most of south India on foot. He used to halt at temples and Mathas where he would deliver discourses on Sanatan Vedic Dharma for religious upheaval. During his travels he made acquaintances with many other well known Hindu religious leaders and saints. The most significant of these was with Sivananda Swami of Shigehalli. He also visited the Vivekananda Rock Memorial and performed meditation there. In 1942, Shreedhar Swami took Sannyasa at Shigehalli and was accorded the title, 'Shreemat Paramhans Parivrajakacharya Bhagwan Shreedhar Swami'. After this till 1967, he extensively toured all over India and through his speeches, writings and spiritual initiatives, spread the core messages of the Vedas among common people. He, returned south to Varadapura in 1967 where he set up an ashram. He practised, held Hindu exorcism in various holy places, temples including Kolgibis (Kumta road), to drive ghosts, spitits out of any hosts body they have took over, using his mantradanada staff. |
25613103#4 | Shreedhar Swami | On the first day of the second half of the first month of the Hindu calendar, Swamiji's health deteriorated. The disciples again pleaded for bringing a doctor, but Swamiji again refused and told them that Samarth Ramdas had told that the bodily pains should be considered as pleasures. He enquired what day was the next one and when told about that he knew that it was a day for very auspicious things, but didn't tell it to anyone. Then as usual he took bath thrice, had a little milk and rested for a while in the night and spent the rest of the time in sahaj Samadhi avastha.
Swamiji got up the next morning at 5 am. After the morning chores he sat in meditation for a while. He came out of the meditation room at 8 am. The disciples requested him to have some milk, to which he agreed and again sat in meditation. Swamiji in sitting position and in meditation twice said 'Om, Om' and then from the upper side of his body through the head he made his soul leave his body to be eternally unified with the Parbramha. Despite this his posture didn't change nor did his facial expressions. In fact the aura around his face became brighter for a while. This was at 9 am. on 19 April 1973.
After a while Swamiji had attained the Ultimate Samadhi. On hearing this all hell broke loose over the ashram. The news spread like a wild fire as it was announced over the All India Radio and Swamiji's disciples started coming to Varadpur. His body was placed on a specially made bed of flowers. |
25613103#5 | Shreedhar Swami | Shreedhar Swami was a gifted composer and fluent in Marathi, Sanskrit, Kannada, Hindi and English. All through his extensive travelling, he managed to spare some time for religious writing. His aim was to simplify the complex nuances of vedic teaching into a form that would be easily digestible to the common man. |
25613103#6 | Shreedhar Swami | He wrote prolifically and wrote over twenty books in Marathi, Kannada and English. |
25613103#7 | Shreedhar Swami | Varadapura |
25613156#0 | Ed Weiland | Edwin Nicholas Weiland (November 26, 1914 – July 12, 1971) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for two seasons. He pitched for the Chicago White Sox for five games during the 1940 Chicago White Sox season and 1942 Chicago White Sox season. He served in the military during World War II. |
25613169#0 | Tyler Media Group | Tyler Media Group, also known as Tyler Broadcasting Corporation or simply Tyler Media, headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a media company which owns five television stations (consisting of two Univision network affiliates, one Estrella TV affiliate and two Telemundo affiliate) and thirteen radio stations (ten English-language and three Spanish-language). The company also operates an outdoor advertising company, Tyler Outdoor Advertising, a sign business, the Tyler Outdoor Sign Co. and Tyler Media Digital, Tyler Media's newest marketing extension. Ty Tyler is the president of the company and his brother Tony Tyler acts as vice president. The company is headquartered at 5101 South Shields Boulevard in Oklahoma City. |
25613169#1 | Tyler Media Group | The company was founded in 1965 by Ralph Tyler, when it purchased KEBC radio in Oklahoma City; Tyler owned the station for 14 years until 1986. Tyler re-entered the radio business in 1994 with the purchase of a station in Ada. Tyler Media entered the television industry in 2004 after it purchased Oklahoma City television station KQOK (channel 30). After the sale, Tyler Media converted the station into a Telemundo affiliate and recalled the station to KTUZ-TV after its new radio sister. |
25613169#2 | Tyler Media Group | On April 16, 2009 Tyler purchased five affiliates of the Spanish-language network Univisión at an auction held by Equity Media Holdings, which was liquidating its assets that year due to bankruptcy. After the sale was approved by the FCC, this created a duopoly with KTUZ-TV. Equity had owned both stations at some point, KTUZ-TV was owned by Equity from sign-on until 2004 when Equity traded channel 30 to Tyler Media in exchange for KUOK. |
25613169#3 | Tyler Media Group | On July 15, 2012, Tyler Media entered into an agreement with Renda Broadcasting to purchase that company's Oklahoma City radio cluster (KMGL, KOMA, KRXO and KOKC) for $40 million. In accordance to limits imposed by the Federal Communications Commission on the number of radio stations a single broadcasting entity can own in a single market, Tyler sold KTLR-AM/FM and KKNG to WPA Radio for $1.6 million. |
25613169#4 | Tyler Media Group | In early 2017, Tyler Media launched its newest marketing extension called, Tyler Media Digital. The effort is to help clients with needs in Digital Strategy, Social Media Ads, SEO, Website Development and Social Media and Reputation Management. |
25613179#0 | 1988 Player's Canadian Open | The 1988 Player's International Canadian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. The men's tournament was held at the National Tennis Centre in Toronto in Canada and was part of the 1988 Nabisco Grand Prix while the women's tournament was held at the du Maurier Stadium in Montreal in Canada and was part of Tier II of the 1988 WTA Tour. The men's tournament was held from August 8 through August 14, 1988, while the women's tournament was held from August 15 through August 21, 1988. |
25613179#1 | 1988 Player's Canadian Open | Ivan Lendl defeated Kevin Curren 7–6, 6–2 |
25613179#2 | 1988 Player's Canadian Open | Gabriela Sabatini defeated Natasha Zvereva 6–1, 6–2 |
25613179#3 | 1988 Player's Canadian Open | Ken Flach / Robert Seguso defeated Andrew Castle / Tim Wilkison 7–6, 6–3 |
25613179#4 | 1988 Player's Canadian Open | Jana Novotná / Helena Suková defeated Zina Garrison / Pam Shriver 7–6, 7–6 |
25613187#0 | Sweet Desire | "Sweet Desire" is a 1978 single by The Kendalls. "Sweet Desire" was The Kendalls' fourth country hit and their second number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of 15 weeks on the charts. The song charted as a double-sided single with b-side "Old Fashioned Love" also listed on the charts. |
25613195#0 | Trans World Communications | Trans World Communications (or TWC for short) was the investment vehicle of businessman Owen Oyston. It operated radio stations and played a part in the Miss World Beauty Pageant. |
25613195#1 | Trans World Communications | Initially called The Red Rose Group because of its beginnings at Red Rose Radio in Preston, Trans World went on to purchase Radio Aire in Leeds, Red Dragon Radio in Cardiff and Piccadilly Radio in Manchester to form the UK's first radio group. |
25613195#2 | Trans World Communications | Perhaps TWC's biggest star was James Whale whose radio programme was 'networked' from Radio Aire in Yorkshire to Red Rose Radio in Lancashire in 1987 and even simulcast on ITV from Yorkshire Television's studios from 1989. |
25613195#3 | Trans World Communications | TWC was later taken over by East Midland Allied Press. However, EMAP's take over of TWC was originally blocked by The Radio Authority after they ruled EMAP, who already owned 30% of Trans World, would breach local radio ownership restrictions as it meant they would hold eight radio franchises - two more than the legislation of the day allowed. The Guardian Media Group, which owned 20 per cent of Trans World, wanting to increase its stake but was prevented in doing so due to the national newspapers it owns. |
25613195#4 | Trans World Communications | EMAP went on to acquire further radio stations in the UK until its radio arm was eventually gobbled up itself by the Germany-based Bauer Media Group in 2008. |
25613195#5 | Trans World Communications | Oyston's company also turned to the beauty business, taking over the Miss World Organisation and reforming it into Trans World Communications. In 1991, a boardroom battle forced him out and The Miss World brand has been privately owned by the Morley family since. |
25613196#0 | Zoro (band) | Zoro (stylized as ZORO) was a Japanese Visual Kei rock band formed in January 2007. Though they were originally a four-piece band for four years, as of 2011, the band is a duo consisting of vocalist Ryuuji and bassist Tatsuhi. |
25613196#1 | Zoro (band) | Vocalist Ryuuji, bassist Tatsuhi, and drummer Yuuya were previously part of a band called Soroban. After Soroban disbanded, the three went on to form the band Zoro in January 2007. Their first performance was at Liquidroom Ebisu on March 5, 2007, although they did not have a drummer. Taizo later joined Zoro in June 2007 after the disbandment of his previous band, Mouse. |
25613196#2 | Zoro (band) | On December 27, 2010, at Maverick DC Group's annual concert Jack in the Box 2010, Zoro revealed that Yuuya and Taizo would be leaving the band and that the band would go on a hiatus. Their last performance together was held at C.C.Lemon Hall on December 29, 2010. During the performance, vocalist Ryuuji declared to the audience that he and Tatsuhi would continue Zoro as a duo. The band later departed from Maverick DC Group's record label, Danger Crue Records. |
25613196#3 | Zoro (band) | In July 2011, the band announced that they would be resuming activities while still in search of a new guitarist and drummer. With their return, they launched a new independent record label, Jesse Records, and released a new single. They also embarked on a solo tour in the following months. |
25613205#0 | Li Sizhong | Li Sizhong (李思忠), né Wamosi (嗢沒斯), formally the Prince of Huaihua (懷化王), was a general of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty of Huigu ancestry, who submitted to Emperor Wuzong after the collapse of the Huigu Khanate in 840 and subsequently served the Tang imperial government. |
25613205#1 | Li Sizhong | Little is known about Wamosi's early years, and it is not known when he was born. The first reference to him in Chinese historical sources, chronologically, was in 840, during the reign of Tang Dynasty's Emperor Wuzong. That year, Xiajiasi (Kirghiz) forces, under the Xiajiasi khan Are (阿熱), defeated and killed Huigu's khan Yaoluoge Hesa (藥羅葛闔馺) and chancellor Jueluowu (掘羅勿). The Huigu people scattered; some fled to the Geluolu (葛邏祿) tribes; some fled to Tufan; and some fled to Anxi (安西, in modern Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang). Some of the Huigu people, led by Wamosi — who was said to be a brother of a khan (and the modern historian Bo Yang believed that he was Yaoluoge Hesa's brother), along with the chancellors Chixin (赤心), Pugu (僕固), and the noble Najiachuo (那頡啜), arrived at the Tang border city of Tiande (天德軍, in modern Bayan Nur, Inner Mongolia). They traded for food with other non-Han tribesmen, while seeking protection from Tang. |
25613205#2 | Li Sizhong | In spring 841, another group of Huigu remnants had supported another noble, Yaoluoge Wuxi (藥羅葛烏希), to be the new khan (as Wujie Khan). The defender of Tiande, Tian Mou (田牟) and eunuch monitor Wei Zhongping (韋仲平), wanting to crush Wamosi's group of Huigu in order to claim it as their achievement, thus claimed that Wamosi was a Huigu rebel and, based on the past alliance between Tang and Huigu, should be attacked. Most imperial officials agreed, but the lead chancellor, Li Deyu, pointing out that Wamosi had fled to Tang borders long before Wujie Khan claimed the khan title, argued that Wamosi was not a rebel. He advocated accepting Wamosi's submission. Emperor Wuzong, while not immediately doing so, ordered Tian not to provoke the Huigu, while ordering the armies of Hedong (河東, headquartered in modern Taiyuan, Shanxi) and Zhenwu (振武, headquartered in modern Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, which Tiande was part of) Circuits to mobilize to prepare to respond if the Huigu army attacked. |
25613205#3 | Li Sizhong | Meanwhile, in spring 842, Wamosi believed that Chixin would not be obedient to him, and therefore falsely informed Tian that Chixin was planning to attack Tiande. Tian responded by luring Chixin and Pugu into a trap and killing them. Najiachuo took some of the Huigu remnants and fled east. In the aftermaths, with various Huigu remnant groups, including the group under Wujie Khan, pillaging the northern Tang regions, Li Deyu advocated accepting Wamosi's submission, in order to encourage other Huigu nobles to submit. As a result, in summer 842, Wamosi was allowed to submit along with 2,200 other nobles. Wamosi was given a general title and was created the Prince of Huaihua. |
25613205#4 | Li Sizhong | Wujie Khan was continuing to pillage the Tang border regions, and was also demanding that Tang surrender Wamosi to him, a demand that Emperor Wuzong rejected. Meanwhile, Wamosi went to the Tang capital Chang'an to pay homage to Emperor Wuzong. Thereafter, Emperor Wuzong gave his army the name of Guiyi Army (歸義軍, i.e., "the army that submitted to righteousness") and made him the commander of the Guiyi Army. Apparently to further assure Emperor Wuzong of his faithfulness, Wamosi requested that his family members be kept at Hedong's capital Taiyuan Municipality and that he and his brothers be posted to the borders to help defend Tang. Emperor Wuzong ordered that the military governor ("Jiedushi") of Hedong, Liu Mian (劉沔), to treat Wamosi's family with kindness. He also bestowed the Tang imperial clan name of Li on Wamosi and changed his name to Li Sizhong. (Wamosi's brothers Alizhi (阿歷支), Xiwuchuo (習勿啜), and Wuluosi (烏羅思) were given the names of Li Sizhen (李思貞), Li Siyi (李思義), and Li Sili (李思禮), respectively.) |
25613205#5 | Li Sizhong | In fall 842, with Wujie Khan and other Huigu remnants still posing threats, Emperor Wuzong ordered Liu, Li Sizhong, and Zhang Zhongwu the military governor of Lulong Circuit (盧龍, headquartered in modern Beijing), to rendezvous at Taiyuan to prepare for further operations. Li Sizhong subsequently volunteered to fight the Huigu remnants along with soldiers from the Qibi (契苾), Shatuo, and Tuyuhun tribesmen; in response, Emperor Wuzong ordered two prefects, He Qingchao (何清朝) and Qibi Tong (契苾通), to report to him. When, subsequently, in winter 842, Liu and Zhang requested a delay in the operations, but Li Zhongshun (李忠順) the military governor of Zhenwu requested that Li Sizhong attack the Huigu with him, Emperor Wuzong sent Li Sizhong to prepare for such an operation. (It is unclear, however, whether such an operation was actually ever launched.) |
25613205#6 | Li Sizhong | In spring 843, Li Sizhong went to Chang'an to again pay homage to Emperor Wuzong. Believing that the Tang border generals were suspicious of him, he requested that he, his brothers, as well as his ally, the noble Ai Hongshun (愛弘順), all be transferred to Chang'an. Emperor Wuzong agreed. Subsequently, the Guiyi Army was disbanded, with the Huigu soldiers being dispersed to various circuits. That was the last reference to Li Sizhong in Chinese historical records, and it is not known when he died. |
25613241#0 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, also known as MICS CABG (Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery/Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting) or The McGinn Technique is heart surgery performed through several small incisions instead of the traditional open-heart surgery that requires a median sternotomy approach. MICS CABG is a beating-heart multi-vessel procedure performed under direct vision through an anterolateral mini-thoracotomy. |
25613241#1 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | Advantages of Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery are less blood loss, reduced post-operative discomfort, faster healing times and lowered risk of infections, as well as eliminating the possibility for deep sternal wound infection or sternal non-union. This procedure makes heart surgery possible for patients who were previously considered too high risk for traditional surgery due to age or medical history. Patients referred for this procedure may have Coronary Artery Disease (CAD); aortic, mitral or tricuspid valve diseases; or previous unsuccessful stenting. |
25613241#2 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | MICS CABG is performed through one 5–7 cm incision in the 4th intercostal space (ICS). In some cases the thoractomy may be necessary in the 5th ICS instead. A soft tissue refractor is used to allow for greater visibility and access. MICS CABG may be completed in an "anaortic" or no-touch off-pump technique, which has demonstrated reduced postoperative stroke and mortality compared to tradational CABG. |
25613241#3 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | Two access incisions are also made at the 6th intercostal space and xphoid process to allow for instruments to position and stabilize the heart. |
25613241#4 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | The McGinn Proximal Technique is performed with the blood pressure lowered to 90-100 systolic which reduces stress to the aorta. A series of tools are used to position and stabilize vessels. The technique uses devices to support the surrounding heart tissues while vital surgery takes place. This is also known as Off-Pump CABG (OPCAB). OPCAB voids the use of Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB), which requires the heart to be stopped (arrested) with cardioplegia solution. Off-pump is also known as beating heart surgery. |
25613241#5 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | Minimally invasive heart surgery has been used as an alternative to traditional surgery for the following procedures: |
25613241#6 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | A cannula with a pump and vacuum action is fed up through an artery in the groin to reduce the stress on the heart so that it may still function during the operation. This pump flows at 2-3L per minute to support circulation and eliminates the need for cardioplegia to arrest the heart. |
25613241#7 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | Hybrid coronary revascularization is a common procedure that takes advantage of coronary stenting in combination with CABG. Hybrid coronary bypass is a relatively new procedure and alternative to traditional bypass surgery that is defined by the performance of coronary bypass surgery and coronary stenting of different areas of a patient’s heart. MICS CABG allows utilization of the left internal mammary artery (IMA; aka Left internal thoracic artery, Left ITA) to bypass the left anterior descending artery (LAD), which is termed as Left IMA-LAD, as a preferable anastamosis whenever indicated and technically feasible (Loop et al.) and has been proven to benefit in event free survival (Acinapura et al.). The other one or two arteries will be stented, when appropriate, allowing cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons to work together. |
25613241#8 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | After a minimally invasive procedure, patients recover more quickly than from sternotomy and suffer fewer complications. Most patients can expect to resume everyday activities within a few weeks of their operation. After surgery, patients are administered an anaesthetic pain pump and drains that will be removed prior to discharge. Patients are encouraged to move around as much as possible after their operation to recover quickly. Once discharged from hospital, patients require no further post-operative assistance. |
25613241#9 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | Minimally invasive heart surgery is a safe and broadly applicable technique for performing a wide range of complex heart procedures, including single or multiple heart valve procedures, bypass surgery, and congenital heart repairs. |
25613241#10 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | Eliminating the need for median sternotomy greatly reduces the trauma and pain associated with open-chest surgery and improves quality of life for patients. In the hospital, reduced post-operative discomfort enables patients to quickly begin a shorter recovery process. Most patients ambulate more easily and participate more actively in their personal care. Additionally, this approach lowers risk of complications such as bleeding, infection and eliminates the risk of sternal non-union. |
25613241#11 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | Minimally invasive heart surgery improves cosmetic results. Rather than a prominent 10-inch scar down the middle of the chest, patients are left with smaller marks to the side of the ribs. For women, in many cases, this scar is completely unnoticeable as it sits below the breast. |
25613241#12 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | Benefits Include:At the 2014 International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Meeting in Boston, Dr. Joseph T McGinn presented a study titled "Minimally Invasive CABG is Safe and Reproducible: Report on the First Thousand Cases," which found a low rate of conversion to sternotomy and low rate of complications. Assessing survival and adverse cardiac events up to 8.0 years (average 2.9±2.0 years), MICS CABG is a safe, reproducible operation that yields survival (96.1±0.9%) and durability comparable to conventional CABG. |
25613241#13 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery published a study on November 1, 2013 that confirmed MICS CABG as safe, feasible, and associated with excellent graft patency rates at 6 months post surgery, with graft patency of 92% for all grafts and 100% for left internal thoracic artery grafts. Coronary artery bypass graft patency was studied through computed tomography angiography. 92% of patients were free from angina and none of the participants experienced any aortic complications, repeat revascularizations, cerebrovascular accidents, myocardial infarctions or death. The two-year study included 91 participants between the ages 48 and 79, averaging a hospital stay of 4 days (range, 3–9 days). Clinical Trial Registration Unique identifier: NCT01334866. |
25613241#14 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | At 2012 American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions and Resuscitation Science Symposium, a study titled "Minimally Invasive CABG: Results to 6 Years" was presented, demonstrating MICS CABG feasibility and established alternative for multivessel sternotomy CABG. It was also noted that the procedure is associated with a short hospital length of stay, no deep wound infections and is safe. The study also proved survival and durability on par with sternotomy. |
25613241#15 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | At the 2010 International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Meeting in Berlin, Germany, duel center data was presented the standardization of MICS CABG in performance and reproducibility of its results. Its safety and effective alternative for performing surgical myocardial revascularization on the beating heart (OPCAB) is emphasized. “Shortened hospital stay is starting to be realized and its application to high risk and complex patients is now being done.” |
25613241#16 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | A 2009 publication in Circulation, titled “Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Dual-Center Experience in 450 Consecutive Patients” concluded MICS CABG as a feasible procedure with excellent short-term outcomes. At that time the study noted, "this operation could potentially make multivessel MICS CABG safe, effective and more widely available." |
25613241#17 | Minimally invasive cardiac surgery | The Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery was invented by Dr Joseph T McGinn, Jr. The first minimally invasive heart cardiac surgery was performed in the United States on January 21, 2005 at The Heart Institute at Staten Island University Hospital in Staten Island, New York by a team led by Dr. Joseph T. McGinn. This technique is an off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. The procedure is much less invasive than traditional bypass surgery because it is performed through three small incisions rather than the traditional sternotomy. Since its first procedure, over 1000 MICS CABG procedures have been performed at The Heart Institute and elsewhere around the world. Other centers that utilize the MICS CABG technique for coronary heart disease are the University of Ottawa Heart Center (ON, Canada), Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart Center (Houston, TX), and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN). |
25613256#0 | Richard B. Russell Dam | Richard B. Russell Dam is a concrete-gravity and embankment dam located on the Savannah River at the border of South Carolina and Georgia, creating Richard B. Russell Lake. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1974 and 1985 for the purposes of flood control, hydroelectricity, recreation, additional stream flow regulation, water supply, and fish and wildlife management. The concrete structure of the dam spans and rises above the riverbed, housing a hydro-power plant with an installed capacity. The Richard B. Russell Dam is the final large dam completed by the U.S. Army Corps in the Savannah River Basin and lies 30 miles downstream from the Hartwell Dam (1962) and upstream from the J. Strom Thurmond Dam (1954). |
25613256#1 | Richard B. Russell Dam | The Flood Control Act of 1966 authorized construction of a new reservoir on the Savannah River to be named Trotters Shoals Lake and Dam. The lake and dam were renamed in 1987 after Georgia senator Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. in the same bill that also renamed Clarks Hill Lake to Lake Strom Thurmond. Construction on the new dam began in 1974 and filling of the lake began in October 1983. The lake reached full pool in December 1984 and the original power plant of four conventional turbine-generators went online in January 1985. In 1992, the addition of four 75 MW reversible pump-turbine units was completed, giving the dam a pumped-storage hydroelectricity capability. |
25613256#2 | Richard B. Russell Dam | The dam has a total length of with its concrete section making up 1,904 feet of that length. The concrete section is flanked on both sides by earthen-embankment dams that total long. The concrete section houses the power plant and spillway of the dam. The spillway contains ten- tainter gates that help regulate the reservoir level along with controlling flooding. |
25613256#3 | Richard B. Russell Dam | The powerhouse is long and contains eight 75 MW generators. Four generators are conventional turbines and another four are reversible turbines. With the four-reversible turbines, the dam can be used for pumped-storage hydroelectricity by pumping water that is discharged downstream back into the reservoir; essentially "reusing" water. |
25613256#4 | Richard B. Russell Dam | Since the Russell Dam is primarily a peaking facility, the reversible pump-turbines pump water from the backwaters of Lake Thurmond into Lake Russell during off-peak hours when electricity is cheap and demand is low. During periods of high power demand, the water is released to generate electricity. Power produced by the dam is managed by the Southeastern Power Administration. |
25613289#0 | Brontosaurus Chorus | Brontosaurus Chorus was a London-based indie pop band. The group was formed by vocalist Jodie Lowther and bassist Dominic Green in 2006. |
25613289#1 | Brontosaurus Chorus | Green had spent the years prior to the band forming as an indie DJ and promoter (for Panic!, Baby Seal and PopArt) whilst playing in a variety of London-based bands (Go Rimbaud, Angels Fight The City, Abdoujaparov, and Circuits) and as a hired hand to friends Metro Corskol, The Violet Pets. |
25613289#2 | Brontosaurus Chorus | Lowther and Green built the band up to include eight members including co-vocalist and guitarist Matthew Curtis, violinists Shalini Santhakumaran and Steph Fuller, cellist Helen Jackson, trumpet player El Stephenson and drummer Tom Harrison. Building their live reputation through London in early 2007, Brontosaurus Chorus were invited to play Dublin's Electric Picnic that summer. |
25613289#3 | Brontosaurus Chorus | In October 2007, Brontosaurus Chorus released their first single on the PopArt London label, a limited edition record split with And What Will Be Left Of Them? Brontosaurus Chorus managed recorded three tracks for their side of the disc. These were "The Myth of Love", "Distortion Pop" and "Kirsten"; the latter a 38-second tribute to Kirsten Dunst). The single rapidly sold out and lead to live appearances throughout the UK in 2008. |
25613289#4 | Brontosaurus Chorus | They released their debut mini album "You’ve Created A Monster" on PopArt London Records in March 2009. It gained critical praise from several music blogs and fanzines, but also most notably from "Art Rocker" magazine ("Seven songs of supreme melodies... A great start for an impressive band".) "NME" awarded the mini album 8 out of 10. |
25613289#5 | Brontosaurus Chorus | In March 2009, El Stephenson contributed trumpet parts to Pocketbooks' "Flight Paths" album, on Ian Watson's How Does It Feel To Be Loved label. The summer of 2009 saw the band cover the song "Because The Night" for the Bruce Springsteen tribute album "Play Some Pool, Skip Some School, Act Real Cool", released on the Wiaiwya label. |
25613289#6 | Brontosaurus Chorus | Around this time Matthew Curtis parted company with the band, to concentrate on his solo project, Typewriter. Brontosaurus Chorus incorporated Rob Britton (formerly of the band Luxembourg) as his replacement. |
25613289#7 | Brontosaurus Chorus | October saw the release of free download single "Louisiana". The download pack also included a number of remixes by the group's peers, including MJ Hibbett, Zip Boy (an alias of drummer Tom Harrison), Goodbye Lennin, Nathan Jones, Dirty Finger Nails, and Dr. T (formerly of The Violet Pets). On 12 December 2009, another new song titled "Calling Birds" was featured on Maps magazine's online Advent Calendar. A new single "Sandman" was launched with a concert at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes on the 5 July 2010. |
25613289#8 | Brontosaurus Chorus | Brontosaurus Chorus' second album on PopArt London Records, "Owls", was released in December 2010. |
25613289#9 | Brontosaurus Chorus | Brontosaurus Chorus played their last gig in May 2011. Green has subsequently formed the Penny Orchids and Desert Falls, and plays drums with the Menaces (featuring Britton on guitar). |
25613298#0 | Chapleau Cree First Nation | Chapleau Cree First Nation is a Mushkegowuk Cree First Nation located by Chapleau Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. The First Nation have reserved for themselves the Chapleau 75 Indian Reserve and the Chapleau Cree Fox Lake Indian Reserve. In 2006, their on-reserve population was 92. |
25613298#1 | Chapleau Cree First Nation | Chapleau Cree First Nation is policed by the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, an Aboriginal-based service. |
25613298#2 | Chapleau Cree First Nation | The First Nation is led by a Chief and five Councillors. Chapleau Cree First Nation is member of Mushkegowuk Council, a regional tribal council affiliated with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation. |
25613320#0 | The Final Frontier | The Final Frontier is the fifteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 13 August 2010 in Germany, Austria and Finland, 17 August in North America, 18 August in Japan, and 16 August worldwide. At 76 minutes and 34 seconds, it is the band's second-longest studio album to date, a duration surpassed only by 2015's "The Book of Souls".
Melvyn Grant, a long-time contributor to the band's artwork, created the cover art. It is the band's final album to be released through EMI Records, marking the end of their 30-year relationship. It is also the last album to use the band's alternate logo. |
25613320#1 | The Final Frontier | The album received largely favourable reviews from critics and peaked at No. 1 in 28 countries. This included the United Kingdom, where it became the band's fourth release to top the UK Albums Chart following 1982's "The Number of the Beast", 1988's "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" and 1992's "Fear of the Dark". On top of this, "The Final Frontier" also charted at No. 4 in the United States, marking their highest placement on the "Billboard" 200, in addition to gaining the band their first Grammy Award in the Best Metal Performance category for the song "El Dorado", released as a free download on 8 June 2010. |
25613320#2 | The Final Frontier | EMI released the album in most of the world, while in the United States it was released jointly by Universal Music Enterprises and Sony Music Entertainment – the successor to the Sanctuary Records/Columbia Records joint venture that had previously controlled the Iron Maiden catalogue in North America. |
25613320#3 | The Final Frontier | On 22 April 2009, during a "Rock Radio" interview promoting "", drummer Nicko McBrain mentioned that Iron Maiden had booked studio time for early 2010. On 8 June, the album artwork, release date, and track listing were revealed, along with a free download of the track "El Dorado." The album was released as a regular CD, an iTunes LP, a digital download, a vinyl picture disc, and a limited collector's "Mission Edition", containing interviews and a game entitled "Mission II: Rescue & Revenge". |
25613320#4 | The Final Frontier | The North American leg of their tour in support of the album started in Dallas, Texas on 9 June 2010, with a European tour beginning in Dublin on 30 July. As these dates preceded the record's release, "El Dorado" was the only new song played in 2010. The full album tour commenced in Moscow on 11 February 2011, and would see the band visit South East Asia, Australia, South America and Florida, as well as returning to Europe. The tour led to the release of a live album and video, entitled "En Vivo!", which was released in March 2012. |
25613320#5 | The Final Frontier | Prior to its release, bassist and band founder Steve Harris was quoted as saying that he imagined the band would release a total of fifteen studio albums. The title, which also shares its name with its supporting tour and opening track, fuelled further rumours that "The Final Frontier" would be Iron Maiden's last, however the band members admitted they hoped to make further releases and continue touring in the future. Harris in particular has stated that "if there's time and we all wanna do it, then why not? It would be sad if we don't make another album, and sad for the fans too", while vocalist Bruce Dickinson admits that the title was largely mischief. In June 2010, Dickinson stated that he thought up the album's title 15 months previously: "I just thought 'We should call the next album "The Final Frontier"!' because it sort of is ... It could be, but it might not be! It means we can go back to space for an Eddie and things like that, and we haven't done that for a while. It has a certain romance to it." |
25613320#6 | The Final Frontier | On 2 November 2009, Janick Gers confirmed to BBC News that the band already had new material written and would head to Paris, France, to start composing and rehearsing the bulk of the new album. According to Dickinson, "we had probably the least amount of preparation we've ever had, which is bizarre because it's the longest and most complicated record of all of them." After taking time off for Christmas, recording commenced in January at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas, with Kevin Shirley producing. This was the first time the band returned to the Bahamas since they last recorded at Compass Point in the 1980s, to which Dickinson remarked: |
25613320#7 | The Final Frontier | The studio had the same vibe and it was exactly as it had been in 1983, nothing had changed! Even down to the broken shutter in the corner ... same carpet ... everything ... It was really quite spooky. But we felt very relaxed in such a familiar and well-trodden environment and I think this shows in the playing and the atmosphere of the album. |
25613320#8 | The Final Frontier | After a month in Nassau, the production was moved to Malibu, California, where the songs were mixed and additional vocals were recorded. On 6 April, Shirley told Blabbermouth.net that he had completed mixing the album, and commented on the final stages of its production on 6 May; "Bruce Dickinson flew in for a few days and sang all his parts before flying off to the four corners of the globe and Steve Harris stayed behind to finish the record with me. He's pretty hands-on like that. Adrian Smith [guitars] dropped in from time to time to hear stuff, and like in any band, not everyone has the same end result in mind, but we get there." |
25613320#9 | The Final Frontier | The album is the fourth for which Steve Harris receives writing credits for every track, following "Killers" (1981), "Brave New World" (2000), and "A Matter of Life and Death" (2006), although the final track, "When the Wild Wind Blows", is the only song which he wrote on his own. Adrian Smith explains that, in recent years, Harris has become "more into writing lyrics and melodies and arranging" other members' tracks and only "brings in one or two songs" of his own. |
25613320#10 | The Final Frontier | "El Dorado" was released as a free digital download on the band's official website on 8 June and went on to win in the Best Metal Performance category at the 2011 Grammy Awards. According to Smith, the song's lyrics, penned by Dickinson, are based on the economic recession which began in 2007 and comment on "people’s expectations of a better life" and how "the rug [was] pulled out from under them" as a result of lending. |
25613320#11 | The Final Frontier | The album's first and only music video, containing the latter half of "Satellite 15... The Final Frontier", was filmed in Rendlesham Forest, south-east England, and released on 13 July. Although the album has no official singles, both "El Dorado" and the second part of "Satellite 15... The Final Frontier" (along with its music video) were issued as radio promos before the album's release. "Coming Home" was also released as a radio single on 27 October, featuring an alternative "radio edit" version of the song. |
25613320#12 | The Final Frontier | In a 1 July 2010 interview with "Billboard", guitarist Dave Murray commented that the album mixes "straight-ahead, uptempo rock songs with good grooves with some other tracks that are kind of longer and more complex", referring particularly to "When the Wild Wind Blows", the band's fifth longest song after "Empire of the Clouds", "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "The Red and the Black" and "Sign of the Cross": Interviewed for the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" on 14 July, guitarist Janick Gers discussed the album's overall sound: "We're taking it to extremes... the one song we released ["El Dorado"] isn't indicative of the rest of the album—there's so many different feels and ways of playing on the album. We go through some different attitudes and take you to different places. There's a lot of long thematic tunes on this album. And some very varied music." Speaking to "Classic Rock" in June 2010, Bruce Dickinson stated that "This one is probably the greatest departure from our sound. It's been happening incrementally since "Brave New World". That's great, after doing it all for this long, to still be figuring stuff out. We could just be bored by it all, but we're obviously not." |
25613320#13 | The Final Frontier | Although "El Dorado" would be the only new song featured in the 2010 leg of The Final Frontier World Tour, "Satellite 15... The Final Frontier," "The Talisman," "Coming Home" and "When The Wild Wind Blows" were added to the setlist in 2011. "El Dorado", "Coming Home" and "When the Wild Wind Blows" were later featured on the "Best Of" album "From Fear to Eternity". |
25613320#14 | The Final Frontier | "The Final Frontier" received generally favourable reviews, with a current score of 71 on the aggregate review site Metacritic. "Classic Rock" praised it as "densely layered and substantial", as well as "beautifully paced and disarmingly complex" and "a fresh take on a sound that has admirably withstood three decades of fashions and fads". "Kerrang!" called it "a record that'll still bowl you over in a decade's time" and MusicRadar stated that "Iron Maiden have created a work full of hypnotic excitement, unconventional structure and dizzying vision...the group have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams." "Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles" called it "a thrilling and deeply satisfying glimpse into a brave new future for the people’s metal band," while the BBC praised the album as "a remarkable achievement", complimenting the band for "no compromises, just complexities and challenges and more moments of brilliance than perhaps even they thought they still had left in them". |
25613320#15 | The Final Frontier | Many reviewers, such as "Metal Hammer", deemed it "a demanding album, but one that most Maiden fans are going to absolutely adore". The Quietus commented, ""The Final Frontier" takes time, it takes effort, but it's overwhelmingly brilliant. They haven’t just served up the easy option – that would have been boring for us and, more importantly you feel, boring for them." PopMatters considered the record "in some ways ... the most ambitious album Iron Maiden has ever made, a 76-minute opus." |
25613320#16 | The Final Frontier | Many critics commented on where "The Final Frontier" rates in comparison to the band's past releases, with Consequence of Sound deeming the album "easily the best from the six-piece since 2000’s "Brave New World"." AllMusic agreed with this, stating, ""The Final Frontier" still brings Iron Maiden closer to their aesthetic legacy and triumphant year 2000 rebirth than its two predecessors." Blabbermouth.net, on the other hand, praised it as "better than "Brave New World"", explaining that "this is the reason Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith rejoined the band, the fulfillment of a decade of promise, and arguably the first time that Steve Harris's post-"Fear of the Dark" cinematic vision has been backed up with consistently strong songwriting, spot-on production, and a fire-in-the-belly performance from the whole band". |
25613320#17 | The Final Frontier | "The Guardian" were more critical of the release, commenting that "with four songs alone clocking in at 40 minutes, "The Final Frontier" becomes less an exercise in experimentation than old-fashioned endurance, and the hushed-intro-bombastic-chorus dynamic begins to grate a little". Drowned in Sound agreed, commenting that "standards sink fast after ["The Alchemist"], and don't rise again for another half an hour", although going on to add that "the epic 11-minute closer, 'When the Wild Wind Blows' ... shows the subtlety and craftsmanship of the four songs that preceded it, but adds an emotional depth that they seemed to lack". |
25613320#18 | The Final Frontier | The album was ranked No. 1, No. 3, and No. 7 respectively in "Metal Hammer", "Kerrang!" and "Revolver"'s lists of the best albums of 2010. |
25613320#19 | The Final Frontier | The song "El Dorado" won the band a Grammy award for "Best Metal Performance".Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes and AllMusic. |
25613320#20 | The Final Frontier | Throughout The Final Frontier World Tour, Bruce Dickinson often requested that fans put the album to No. 1 in the respective country's music charts,
which it did in 28 countries worldwide. It is the first Iron Maiden release to debut at No. 1 in the United Kingdom charts since 1992's "Fear of the Dark", having sold 44,385 copies in its first week. In addition, "The Final Frontier" debuted at No. 4 in the "Billboard" 200 with 63,000 units sold, the highest position the band have ever reached in the United States. |