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Diagnostic Radiology/Musculoskeletal Imaging/Tumors Basic/Periosteal Osteosarcoma

Periosteal osteosarcoma are more rare than conventional or parosteal osteosarcoma and arises from the surface of the bone, most commonly in diaphyses of femur and tibia. Age of presentation is typically 10–20 years of age. Scalloping of the adjacent cortex is common and there are often spicules of bone emanating from the lesion in a sunburst pattern. Also seen commonly is periosteal reaction. Intramedullary invasion and extension is uncommon. MRI signal is typically not helpful (low T1 and high T2.) Spicules of bone emanating in sunburst pattern tend to be low T2 in signal. Differential includes juxtacortical chondroma and high-grade surface osteosarcoma.


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Diagnostic Radiology/Musculoskeletal Imaging/Tumors Basic/Osteochondroma

Osteochondromas are cartilage-covered, histologically normal bony projections (exostoses) on the external surface of a bone in the vicinity of growth plates. They are the most common benign bone lesions and present during late childhood and adolescence. Although any bone with enchondral ossification may be involved, the femur, the proximal tibia, and the proximal humerus account for approximately 65-85% of cases.

There is a hereditary skeletal dysplasia known as osteochondromatosis (multiple heritable exostoses) where multiple exostoses are distributed symmetrically on the skeleton. This is a autosomal-dominant disease and is one of the most common skeletal dysplasias. The condition is familial, with more severe manifestations in men.

Pathophysiology
Osteochondromas result from the growth of aberrant growth plate with cartilage on the bony surface. As the cartilage grows, it forms a cap over a bony mass that develops by progressive enchondral ossification. The bony portion contains mature, normal cortical and medullary bone with a marrow space contiguous with the parent bone. Deep lobules of cartilage may be present, often heavily ossified. Osteochondromas have their own growth plate and stop growing with skeletal maturity.

Epidemiology

 * Age: Present before the age of 20 in 80% of cases ( range of age 10–35 years)
 * Sex: There is a 2:1 male to female predominance for the development of solitary osteochondromas. In osteochondromatosis, men are more prone to the severe manifestations.

Clinical Findings
In general, osteochondromas are slow growing and painless. However, they can be associated with complications, such as:

 * Pressure on adjacent nerves and blood vessels
 * Pressure on adjacent bone leading to deformation, fractures
 * Overlying bursitis
 * Malignant transformation (in < 1%). Malignant transformation should be suspected if :
 * Pain in the absence of fracture, bursitis, or nerve compression
 * Growth of lesion after skeletal maturation

In the osteochonromatosis, the clinical complications also include severe growth abnormalities. In particular, deformities of the tubular bones are present and cause disproportionately short limbs. However, the degree of shortness appears to be unrelated to the number of exostoses. Malignant transformation is rare, but higher (1-10%) than in solitary osteochondromas. Malignant transformation is usually into chondrosarcoma.

Radiologic Findings
There are two characteristic types of osteochondromas, pedunculated and sessile. The pedunculated type has a slender pedicle directed away from the growth plate. The sessile are broad based. Below are other characteristic findings of osteochondromas:

 * Located at the metaphyses
 * Calcification in the chondrous portion of the cap can give the pedunculated lesions a cauliflower-like appearance
 * The lesions grow away from the joint
 * MR or CT imaging can demonstrate cortical and medullary continuity between the osteochondroma and the parent bone as a distinctive feature.
 * MR is the best imaging modality for visualizing the effect of the lesion on surrounding structures and for evaluating the hyaline cartilage cap. Mineralized areas in the cartilage cap remain low signal intensity with all MR pulse sequences, although as enchondral ossification proceeds, yellow marrow signal is ultimately apparent.

The lesions of osteochondromatosis are radiologically indistinguishable from solitary exostoses. They are typically sessile and metaphyseal in location. The skeleton is involved symmetrically, and the limbs are affected more than the spine. The number of exostoses varies. The knee, ankle, and shoulder are usually involved.

In both solitary osteochondromas and osteochondromatosis, the radiologic distinction between a benign exostosis and an exostotic chondrosarcoma is difficult unless growth and change in appearance can be demonstrated on serial films.

Fig. 1 22 year old male with solitary exostosis on the lateral aspect of distal femur. The axial T1 weighted image illustrates the continuity of the cortex of the exostosis with the parent bone.

Fig. 2 Osteochondroma on right, lesser tronchanter illustrating the peduculated cauliflower-like appearance.

Fig. 3 Osteochondromatosis in a 32 year old male with hip pain. Note the bilateral lesions in the pelvis and the additional lesion in the distal femur.

Treatment
No treatment is required if the diagnosis is not in doubt and if the patient is relatively asymptomatic. However, surgical resection is indicated for persistent irritation from bursitis or for neurovascular compromise. Surgical resection is also indicated for continued osteochondroma growth after skeletal maturity.

Definitive treatment includes marginal excision of an active exostosis including the cartilaginous cap and overlying perichondrium. The cartilaginous cap should not be traumatized during its removal. Less than 5% of osteochondromas return after removal.

For more information check the MHE Research Foundations website www.mheresearchfoundation.org

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Nikola Tesla/Early years

Early years
Tesla was born "at the stroke of midnight" in 1856 during a  lightning striking in a summer storm (the first moment of July 10). The midwife commented, "He'll be a child of the storm," to which his mother replied, "No, of light." He was born in Smiljan near Gospić in Croatia, Lika, (the Military Frontier of the Austria-Hungary, now in Croatia). (His baptismal name was Николай (Nikola). His Baptism Certificate reports that he was born on June 28 (Julian calendar; July 10 in the Gregorian calendar) 1856, and christened by the Serbian orthodox priest, Toma Oklobdžija. Tesla was baptised in the Old Slavonic Church rite.

His father was Rev. Milutin Tesla, a Serbian priest in the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Karlovci which gathered the Serbs of the "Greek-rite" as they were legally referred to in Habsburg Monarchy at the time (Vlach Orthodox; Metropolitanate of Karlovci). His father's church in Gospić was destroyed in the 1990s. His mother was Đuka Mandić, a housewife talented in making home craft tools. Nikola was one of five children, having one brother and three sisters. His godfather, Jovan Drenovac, was a Captain in the Krajina army. His family moved to Gospić in 1862.

School
Tesla went to school in Karlovac (then Austria-Hungary), then studied electrical engineering at the Austria Politechnic in Graz, Austria (1875). While there, he studied the uses of alternating current. Today, there is a school dedicated to Nikola Tesla in Zagreb.

Early employment
In 1881 he moved to Budapest to work for the telegraph company, American Telephone Company. On the opening of the telephone exchange in Budapest, 1881, Tesla became the chief electrician to the company, later engineer to the Yugoslav government and the country's first telephone system. He also developed a telephone repeater (sometimes called an amplifier) [ed., this was one of the first wireless telephones]. The device could act as an audio speaker (not an audio transducer).

The device had its resonance tuned to a particular frequency of other repeaters to communicate between each. In 1916, Tesla described the prior developed audio transducers. According to Tesla, it was the "... simplest ways [to detect the radiant energy ...] the low frequency gave audible notes. [... in a field, there was] placed a conductor, a wire or a coil, and then Tesla would get a note [...] characteristics of the audible note". The audible sounds were of the quality of the telephones diaphragms of that period of time. The invention was never patented nor released publicly (till years later by Tesla himself). The device also contained the characteristics of modern wireless telephones.

For a while he stayed in Maribor. He was employed at his first job as an assistant engineer. Tesla suffered a nervous breakdown during this time. In 1882 he moved to Paris to work as an engineer for the Continental Edison Company. He worked designing improvements to electric equipment. In the same year, Tesla conceived of the induction motor and began developing various devices that use rotating magnetic fields (for which he received patents in 1888). Tesla visualized the rotating fields and thereby designed the induction motor.

Tesla was fascinated by the Crookes radiometer, believing that it was a most wonderful invention.

Tesla hastened from Paris to his mother's side as she lay dying, arriving hours before her death in 1882. Her last words to him were, "You've arrived, Nidzo, my pride." After her death, Tesla fell ill. He spent two to three weeks recuperating in Gospić and the village of Tomingaj near Grač, the birthplace of his mother. All his life, Tesla kept a home-spun embroidered travel bag from his mother.

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Nikola Tesla/Introduction

Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) was of unusual intellectual brilliance. The Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer had a general mental capability that could reason, plan, and solve problems in his head. He could think abstractly and comprehend ideas without putting pen to paper. His patents (over 225 in the United States) and theoretical work still form the basis for modern alternating current electric power systems (including the polyphase system power distribution system). Tesla helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Tesla is regarded as one of the most important inventors in history. He is also well known for his contributions to the science of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His legacy can be seen across modern civilization.

In his early years, he enjoyed widespread fame; he was widely recognized in high society and in culture, and a significant amount of professional material of the publishing industries focuses on Tesla's announcements. He was highly regarded in the annals of history. In the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist of his era. After his demonstration of wireless communication in 1893 and after Westinghouse being the victor in the "War of Currents" using Tesla's patents, he was widely respected as America's greatest electrical engineer. Tesla's name became a byword for innovation and practical achievement.His name was one of the most recognizable in the world, a magician who conjured up technical feats. Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. He later became credited as being the inventor of the radio. Tesla's vision was to find a means to provide humanity the means for unlimited energy. He gave his life to make real these plans, while others made fortunes with his inventions.

In his later years, Tesla was regarded as a mad scientist. He became noted for making "bizarre" and misunderstood claims about possible scientific developments. At the end of his life, Tesla was mocked by his contemporaries and lived his remaining years destitute and forgotten. Never putting a large focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86. Tesla was ahead of his time; many of Tesla's ideas and concepts are just only recently coming to fruition.

Tesla's legacy can be seen across modern civilization wherever electricity is used. Aside from his work on electromagnetism and engineering, Tesla is said to have contributed in varying degrees to the fields of robotics, ballistics, computer science, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics. Many of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and New Age occultism. Many contemporary admirers of Tesla have deemed him the man who invented the twentieth century.

Relations, friendships, and personal views
In his middle life, Nikola Tesla became very close friends with Mark Twain. They spent a lot of time together in his lab and elsewhere. He remained bitter in the aftermath of his incident with Edison. The day after Edison died the New York Times contained extensive coverage of Edison's life, with the only negative opinion coming from Edison who was quoted as saying, "He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene" and that, "His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense." In his old age, Edison expressed that his biggest mistake was never respecting Tesla or his work. This did little for their almost non-existent relationship.

Tesla was opposed to wars but believed it could not be avoided until the cause for its recurrence was removed. He inherited a hatred of war from his parents and homeland, and devised protective measures intended to systematically end warfare. He found exceptions and some justifiable situations where conflict was indeed necessary. He envisioned wars of machines, not of humans, and a future of catastrophic weapons. He sought to reduce distance, such as in communication for better understanding, transportation, and transmission of energy, as a means to ensure friendly international relations. A system for "Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy Through Natural Media" known as teleforce was reportedly developed later in his life. Teleforce was intended to be a type of defensive particle-beam weapon.

Like many of his era he developed a fondness for eugenics. The earliest clear instances of this were after his obsessive-compulsive disorder had been pronounced. In a curious 1926 interview he indicated humanity's future would be run by a "Queen Bee" referring to women who'd mate selectively.. By February of 1935 he had a pro-eugenics article in Liberty which was edited by a friend named G. S. Viereck. In a 1937 interview near the end of his life he indicated that "A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal." Tesla was considered an eccentric, therefore some of his ideas have been overlooked in the traditional eugenicist school of thought.

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Later years
Prior to the First World War, Tesla looked overseas for investors to fund his research. When the war started, Tesla lost funding he was receiving from his European patents. Wardenclyffe Tower was also demolished towards the end of WWI. Tesla had predicted the relevant issues of the post-World War I environment (a war which theoretically ended) in a printed article (December 20, 1914). Tesla believed that the League of Nations was not a remedy for the times and issues. In 1915, Tesla filed a lawsuit against Marconi attempting, unsuccessfully, to obtain a court injunction against the claims of Marconi. Around 1916, Tesla filed for bankruptcy because he owed so much in back taxes. He was living in poverty.

Tesla started to exhibit pronounced symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the years following. He became obsessed with the number three. He often felt compelled to walk around a block three times before entering a building, demanded a stack of three folded cloth napkins beside his plate at every meal, etc. The nature of OCD was little understood at the time and no treatments were available, so his symptoms were considered by some to be evidence of partial insanity and this probably hurt what was left of his reputation. This obsessive-compulsive behavior may have originated from the observations over repeated polyphase systems in nature that Tesla researched.

At this time, he was staying at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, renting in an arrangement for deferred payments. Eventually, the Wardenclyffe deed was turned over to George Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria to pay a $20,000 debt. In 1917, around the time that the Wardenclyffe Tower was demolished by Boldt to make the land a more viable real estate asset, Tesla received AIEE's highest honor, the Edison Medal. The irony of this honor was probably not lost on Tesla.

Radar development
Tesla, in August 1917, first established principles regarding frequency and power level for the first primitive radar units in 1934. Emile Girardeau, working with the first French radar systems, stated he was building radar systems "conceived according to the principles stated by Tesla". By the twenties, Tesla was reportedly negotiating with the United Kingdom government under Prime Minister Chamberlain about a ray system. Tesla had also stated that efforts had been made to steal the "death ray" (though they had failed). The Chamberlain government was removed, though, before any final negotiations occurred. The incoming Baldwin government found no use for Tesla's suggestions and ended negotiations.

1930s
On Tesla's seventy-fifth birthday in 1931, Time magazine put him on its cover. The cover caption noted his contribution to electrical power generation. In 1935, many of Marconi's patents relating to the radio were declared invalid by the United States Court of Claims. The Court of Claims decided that the prior work of Tesla (specifically US645576 and US649621) had anticipated Marconi's later works. Tesla got his last patent in 1928 on January 3, an apparatus for aerial transportation which was the first instance of VTOL aircraft. In 1934, Tesla wrote to consul Janković of his homeland. The letter contained the message of gratitude to Mihajlo Pupin who initiated a donation scheme by which American companies could support Tesla. Tesla refused the assistance, and chose to live by a modest pension received from Kingdom of Yugoslavia and to continue researching.

Field theories
When he was eighty-one, Tesla stated he had completed a Dynamic Theory of Gravity. He stated that it was "worked out in all details" and hoped to give to the world the theory soon. The theory was never published. At the time of his announcement, it was considered by the scientific establishment to exceed the bounds of reason. Some believe that Tesla never fully developed the Unified Field Theory, nor that any physicist in the years since it was first postulated.

While Tesla had "worked out a dynamic theory of gravity" that he soon hoped to give to the world, he died before he publicized any details. Few details were revealed by Tesla about his theory in the announcement. Tesla's critique in the announcement was the opening clash between him and modern experimental physics. Tesla may have viewed his principles in such a manner as to not be in conflict with other modern theories (besides Einstein's). Tesla's theory is ignored by some researchers (and mainly disregarded by physicists).

The bulk of the theory was developed between 1892 and 1894, during the period that he was conducting experiments for with high frequency and high potential electromagnetism and patenting devices for their utilization. It was completed, according to Tesla, by the end of the 1930s. Tesla's theory explained gravity using electrodynamics consisting of transverse waves (to a lesser extent) and longitudinal waves (for the majority). Reminiscent of Mach's principle, Tesla stated in 1925 that,

 * There is no thing endowed with life - from man, who is enslaving the elements, to the nimblest creature - in all this world that does not sway in its turn. Whenever action is born from force, though it be infinitesimal, the cosmic balance is upset and the universal motion results.

Tesla, concerning Albert Einstein's relativity theory, stated that '...the relativity theory, by the way, is much older than its present proponents. It was advanced over 200 years ago by my illustrious countryman Boskovic, the great philosopher, who, not withstanding other and multifold obligations, wrote a thousand volumes of excellent literature on a vast variety of subjects. Boskovic dealt with relativity, including the so-called time-space continuum...', (1936 unpublished interview, quoted in Anderson, L, ed. Nikola Tesla: Lecture Before the New York Academy of Sciences: The Streams of Lenard and Roentgen and Novel Apparatus for Their Production, 6 April 1897, reconstructed 1994).

Tesla was critical of Einstein's relativity work, '...[a] magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king...., its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists...', (New York Times, 11 July 1935, p23, c.8).

Tesla also stated that 'I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.', (New York Herald Tribune, 11 September 1932)

Death and afterwards
Tesla died alone in the hotel New Yorker of heart failure, some time between the evening of January 5 and the morning of January 8, 1943. Despite selling his AC electricity patents, he was essentially destitute and died with significant debts.

At the time of his death, Tesla had been working on some form of teleforce weapon, or death ray, the secrets of which he had offered to the United States War Department on the morning of 5 January. It appears that his proposed death ray was related to his research into ball lightning and plasma. He was found dead three days later and, after the FBI was contacted by the War Department, his papers were declared to be top secret.

Immediately after Tesla's death became known, the FBI instructed the Office of Alien Property to take possession of his papers and property, despite his US citizenship. All of his personal effects were seized on the advice of presidential advisors. J. Edgar Hoover declared the case "most secret", because of the nature of Tesla's inventions and patents. Tesla's Serbian-Orthodox family and the Yugoslav embassy struggled with American authorities to gain these items after his death due to the potential significance of some of his research. Eventually, his nephew, Sava Kosanovich, got possession of some of his personal effects (which are now housed in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Yugoslavia). Tesla's funeral took place on January 12, 1943 at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City.

In 1976, a large bronze statue of Tesla was erected at Niagara Falls State Park. A similar statue was also erected in the Tesla's hometown of Gospic in the 1981. The statue in Gospic was dynamited by the Croatian forces in 1991.

Perhaps because of Tesla's personal eccentricity and the dramatic nature of his demonstrations, conspiracy theories about applications of his work persist. The common Hollywood stereotype of the "mad scientist" mirrors Tesla's real-life persona, or at least a caricature of it—which may be no accident considering that many of the earliest such movies (including the first movie version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) were produced by Tesla's old rival, Thomas Edison. There are at least two films describing Tesla's life. In the first, arranged for TV, Tesla was portrayed by Rade Šerbedžija. In 1980, Orson Welles produced a Yugoslavian film named Tajna Nikole Tesle (The Secret of Nikola Tesla), in which Welles himself played the part of Tesla's patron, George Westinghouse.

Seized records
According to FBI documents acquired via FOIA request, the sum of Tesla's possessions ("consisting of about two truckloads of material... [and] approximately thirty barrels and bundles") were seized, upon his death in 1943, by agents of the (now defunct) Office of Alien Property Custodian. One document states that "[he] is reported to have some 80 trunks in different places containing transcripts and plans having to do with his experiments..."

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Menlo Park
In 1884, Tesla moved to the United States of America to accept a job with the Edison Company in New York City. He arrived in the US with 4 cents to his name, a book of poetry, and a letter of recommendation from Charles Batchelor (his manager in his previous job) to Thomas Edison.

The letter read simply "I know two great men, and you are one of them. This young man is the other". Tesla's work for Edison began with simple electrical engineering. Eventually Tesla earned the respect of Edison and offered to undertake a complete re-design of the Edison company's DC dynamos. After Tesla described the nature of the benefits from his proposed modifications, Edison offered him US$50,000 if they were successfully completed.

Tesla worked for nearly a year to redesign them and gave the Edison company several enormously profitable new patents in the process. When Tesla inquired about the $50,000, Edison replied to him, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor", and reneged on his agreement, offering a raise in Tesla's salary of $10 per week as a compromise - at which rate it would have taken almost 100 years to earn the money Edison had originally promised. Tesla resigned on the spot. In some accounts of the final confrontation, Tesla did not say a single word to Edison but simply turned his back on the inventor and walked off the premises. Edison would receive US patent 328572 for an improved commutator and, later, would gain US patent 373584 for a dynamo-electric machine (which includes an extra coil and utilizes a field of force) among other patents which Tesla may be responsible for.

Independence
In 1886, Tesla formed his own company, Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing. The initial financial investors disagreed with Tesla on his plan for an alternating current motor and eventually relieved him of his duties at the company. Tesla worked in New York as a common laborer from 1886 to 1887 to feed himself and raise capital for his next project.

In 1887, he constructed the initial brushless alternate-current induction motor, which he demonstrated to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (now IEEE) in 1888. Also in 1887, he developed the principles of his Tesla coil and began working with George Westinghouse at Westinghouse's Pittsburgh labs. Westinghouse listened to his ideas for polyphase systems which would allow transmission of AC electricity over large distances

The first efficient and practical electromechanical generator patented by Nikola Tesla in 1891 was U.S. Patent 447921. This is the first small rotating machine, called the alternator. Nikola Tesla's U.S. Patent 447920, "Method of Operating Arc-Lamps" (March 10, 1891), describes an alternator that produces high frequency current, around 10,000 cycles per second (hertz). His intention was to suppress the disagreeable sound of power-frequency harmonics produced by arc lamps operating on frequencies within the range of human hearing. The produced alterations (or pulsations) was in the longwave broadcasting range (very low frequency band).

World Columbian Exposition
The International Exposition was held was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of the New World. It was the first to have a large portion of its grounds devoted electrical exhibits. It was an historical moment and the beginning of a revolution, as Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse introduced the public to electrical power by providing alternating current to illuminate the Exposition. The general public observed firsthand the qualities and abilities of alternating current power. All the exhibits were from commercial enterprises. Thomas Edison, Brush, Western Electric, and Westinghouse had exhibits. General Electric Company (backed by Edison and J.P. Morgan) proposed to power the electric fair with direct current at the cost of one million dollars.

Westinghouse, armed with Tesla's alternating current system, proposed to illuminate the exposition for half that price. Tesla's high-frequency high-voltage lighting produced more efficient light with quantitatively less heat. A two-phase induction motor was driven by current from the main generators to power the system. Edison tried to prevent the use of his light bulbs in Tesla's works. Westinghouse's proposal was chosen over the inferior direct current system to power the fair. General Electric banned the use of Edison's lamps in Westinghouse's plan, in retaliation for losing the bid. Westinghouse's company quickly designed a double-stopper lightbulb (sidestepping Edison's patents) and was able to light the fair.

The Westinghouse Company displayed several polyphase systems. The exhibits included a switchboard, polyphase generators, step-up transformers, transmission line, step-down transformers, commercial size induction motors and synchronous motors, and rotary direct current converters (including an operational railway motor). The working scaled system allowed the public a view of a system of polyphase power which could be transmitted over long distances, and be utilized, including the supply of direct current. Meters and other auxiliary devices were also present.

Tesla displayed his phosphorescent lighting, powered without wires by high-frequency fields. Tesla displayed the first practical phosphorescent lamps (a precursor to fluorescent lamps). Tesla's lighting inventions exposed to high-frequency currents would bring the gases to incandescence. Tesla also displayed the first neon lights. His innovations in this type of light emission were not regularly patented.

Also among the exhibits was Tesla's demonstration, most notably the "Egg of Columbus". This device explains the principles of the rotating magnetic field and his induction motor. The Egg of Columbus consisted of a polyphase field coil underneath a plate with a copper egg positioned over the top. When the sequence of coils were energized, the magnetic field arrangement inductively created a rotation on the egg and made it stand up on end (appearing to resist gravity). On August 25, Elisha Gray introduced Tesla for a delivery of a lecture on mechanical and electrical oscillators. Tesla explained his work for efficiently increasing the work at high frequency of reciprocation. As Electrical Congress members listened, Tesla delineated mechanisms which could produce oscillations of constant periods irrespective of the pressure applied and irrespective of frictional losses and loads. He continued to explain the working mean of the production of constant period electric currents (not resorting to spark gaps or breaks), and how to produce these with mechanisms which are reliable.

The successful demonstration of alternating current lighting at the Exposition dispelled doubts about the usefulness of the polyphase alternating current system developed by Westinghouse and Tesla.

Colorado Springs
In 1899, Tesla decided to move and began research in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he could have room for his high-voltage high-frequency experiments. He chose this location primarily because of the frequent thunderstorms, the high altitude (where the air, being at a lower pressure, had a lower dielectric breakdown strength, making it easier to ionize), and the dryness of the air (minimizing leakage of electric charge through insulators). Also, the property was free and electric power available from the El Paso Power Company. Today, magnetic intensity charts also show that the ground around his lab possesses a denser magnetic field than the surrounding area. Tesla reached Colorado Springs on May 17, 1899. Upon his arrival he told reporters that he was conducting experiments transmitting signals from Pikes Peak to Paris.

Tesla kept a diary of his experiments in the Colorado Springs lab where he spent nearly nine months. It consists of 500 pages of handwritten notes and nearly 200 drawings, recorded chronologically between June 1, 1899 and January 7, 1900, as the work occurred, containing explanations of his experiments. He was developing a system for wireless telegraphy, telephony and the transmission of power, experimented with high-voltage electricity and the possibility of wireless transmitting and distributing large amounts of electrical energy over long distances. He also conceived a system for geophysical exploration--seismology--which he called telegeodynamics, based on his reciprocating mechanical oscillator patented in 1894, and explained that a long sequence of small explosions could be used to find ore and create earthquakes large enough to destroy the Earth. He did not experiment with this as he felt there would not be "a desirable outcome".

Laboratory construction
Tesla, a local contractor, and several assistants commenced the construction of the laboratory shortly after arriving in Colorado Springs. The lab was established on Knob Hill, east of the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind and one mile (1.6 km) east of downtown. Its primary purposes were experiments with high frequency electricity and other phenomena, and secondary--research into wireless transmission of electrical power. Tesla's design of the lab was a building fifty feet by sixty feet (15 by 18 m) with eighty-foot (24 m) ceilings. A one-hundred-forty-two foot (43 m) conducting aerial with a thirty-inch (76 cm) copper-foil covered wooden ball was erected on the roof. The roof was rolled back to prevent fire from sparks and other dangerous effects of the experiments. The laboratory had sensitive instruments and equipment.

Tuned circuits
Tesla also constructed many smaller resonance transformers and discovered the concept of tuned electrical circuits. He also developed a number of coherers for separating and perceiving electromagnetic waves and designed rotating coherers which he used to detect the unique types of electromagnetic phenomenon he observed. They had a mechanism of geared wheels driven by a coiled spring-drive mechanism which rotated small glass cylinders. These experiments were the final stage of years of work on synchronized tuned electrical circuits.

These transceivers were constructed to demonstrate how signals could be "tuned in". Tesla logged in his diary on July 3, 1899 that a separate resonance transformer tuned to the same high frequency as a larger high-voltage resonance transformer would transceive energy from the larger coil, acting as a transmitter of wireless energy, which was used to confirm Tesla's patent for radio during later disputes in the courts. These air core high-frequency resonate coils were the predecessors of systems from radio to radar and medical magnetic resonance imaging devices.

Propagation and resonance
On July 3, 1899, Tesla discovered terrestrial stationary waves within the earth. He demonstrated that the Earth behaves as a smooth polished conductor and possesses electrical vibrations. He experimented with waves characterized by a lack of vibration at points, between which areas of maximum vibration occur periodically. These standing waves were produced by confining waves within constructed conductive boundaries. Tesla demonstrated that the Earth could respond at predescribed frequencies of electrical vibrations. At this time, Tesla realized that it was possible to transceive power around the globe. A few years later, George Westinghouse stopped funding Tesla's research when Tesla showed him that he could offer free electricity to the whole world by simply "ramming a stick in the earth in your backyard". Westinghouse said he would go bankrupt if that happened.

Tesla conducted experiments contributing to the understanding of electromagnetic propagation and the Earth's resonance. It is well documented (from various photos from the time) that he lit hundreds of lamps wirelessly at a distance of up to twenty-five miles (40 km). He transmitted signals several kilometres and lit neon tubes conducting through the ground. He researched ways to transmit energy wirelessly over long distances (utilizing the ionosphere and the ground's telluric currents via transverse waves, to a lesser extent, and, more readily, longitudinal waves). He transmitted extremely low frequencies through the ground as well as between the Earth's surface and the Kennelly-Heaviside layer. He received patents on wireless that developed standing waves by this method. In his experiments, he made mathematical calculations and computations based on his experiments and discovered that the resonant frequency of the Earth was approximately 8 Hz (Hertz). In the 1950s, researchers confirmed resonant frequency was in this range (interesting to note, Theta brain waves also cycle in this range).

Cosmic waves
In the Colorado Springs lab, Tesla recorded what he concluded were extraterrestrial radio signals and announced his findings in some of the scientific journals of the time. His announcements and data were rejected by the scientific community who did not believe him. He notes measurements of repetitive signals from his receiver which are substantially different from the signals he had noted from storms and earth noise. Specifically, he later recalled that the signals appeared in groups of clicks 1, 2, 3, and 4 clicks together. He stated in the article "A Giant Eye to See Round the World", of 25 February 1923, that:

 * "Twenty-two years ago, while experimenting in Colorado with a wireless power plant, I obtained extraordinary experimental evidence of the existence of life on Mars. I had perfected a wireless receiver of extraordinary sensitiveness, far beyond anything known, and I caught signals which I interpreted as meaning 1--2--3--4.  I believe the Martians used numbers for communication because numbers are universal." Albany Telegram — 25 February 1923

Clearly, Tesla felt the signal groups originated on the planet Mars. In 1996 Corum and Corum published an analysis of Jovian plasma torus signals which indicate that there was a correspondence between the setting of Mars at Colorado Springs, and the cessation of signals from Jupiter in the summer of 1899 when Tesla was there. Further, analysis by the Corums indicate that Tesla's transceiver was sensitive in the 18 kHz gap in the Kennelly-Heaviside layer which would have allowed that reception from Jupiter. Therefore, there is evidence the signals Tesla noticed came from Jupiter, among other possible sources. Tesla spent the latter part of his life trying to signal Mars.

It is important to recognize that when he says he "recorded" these signals, it is meant that he wrote down the data and his impressions of what he had heard. He did release reports at the time. Tesla’s initial announcement of the existence of extraterrestrial radio signals was in 1899. In March of 1907, Tesla wrote about signaling to Mars in Harvard Magazine and how it was a problem of electrical engineering. Additional descriptions come from remembrances twenty years later. All this was met with resistance and disbelief by his contemporaries.

Colorado departure
Tesla left Colorado Springs on January 7, 1900. The lab was torn down, broken up, and its contents sold to pay debts. The Colorado experiments prepared Tesla for his next project, the establishment of a wireless power transmission facility that would be known as Wardenclyffe.

On March 21, 1900, Tesla was granted US685012 patent for the means for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations. The United States Patent Office classification system currently denotes that this patent pertains to superconductivity technology (Class 505/825). Within this patent it describes the increase intensity and duration of electric oscillations of a low temperature resonating circuit. Carl von LindeCarl von Linde and William Hampson, both commercial researchers, nearly at the same time filed for patents on the Joule-Thomson effect. Linde's patent was the climax of 20 years of systematic investigation of establish facts, using a regenerative counterflow method. Hampson's designs was also of a regenerative method. It is believed that Tesla had intended that Linde's machine would be used to attain the cooling agents.

Wardenclyffe Tower
Tesla began planning the Wardenclyffe Tower facility ca. 1898, and in 1901, construction began on the land near Long Island Sound. Architect Stanford White designed the Wardenclyffe facility main building. The tower was designed by W.D. Crow, an associate of White. Funding for Tesla's project was provided by influential industrialists and other venture capitalists. The project was initially backed by the wealthy J. P. Morgan (he had a substantial investment in the facility, initially investing $150,000).

In June 1902, Tesla moved his laboratory operations from his Houston Street laboratory to Wardenclyffe. However, in 1903, when the tower structure was near completion, it was still not yet functional due to last-minute design changes that introduced in an unintentional defect. When Morgan wanted to know "Where can I put the meter?", Tesla had no answer. Tesla's vision of free power did not agree with Morgan's worldview. Construction costs eventually exceeded the money provided by Morgan, and additional financiers were reluctant to come forth. By July 1904, Morgan (and the other investors) finally decided they would not provide any additional financing. Morgan also encouraged other investors to avoid the project. In May 1905, Tesla's patents on alternating current motors and other methods of power transmission expired, halting royalty payments and causing a severe reduction of funding to the Wardenclyffe Tower. In an attempt to find alternative funding, Tesla advertised the services of the Wardenclyffe facility, but he met with little success. By this time, Tesla had also designed the Tesla turbine at Wardenclyffe and produced Tesla coils for sale to various businesses.

By 1905, since Tesla could not find any more backers, most of the site's activity had to be shut down. The main hall continued to be used for blackface minstrel shows until October of that year. Employees were laid off in 1906, but parts of the building remained in use until 1907. In 1908, the property was foreclosed for the first time. Tesla procured a new mortgage from the proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, George C. Boldt. The facility was partially abandoned around 1911, the tower structure eventually becoming deteriorated. Between 1912 and 1915, Tesla's finances unraveled, and when the funders wanted to know how they were going to recapture their investments, Tesla was unable to give satisfactory answers. Newspaper headlines of the time labeled it "Tesla's million-dollar folly." The facility's main building was breached and vandalized around this time. Collapse of the Wardenclyffe project may have contributed to the mental breakdown Tesla experienced during this period. Coupled to the personal tragedy of Wardenclyffe was the earlier 1895 unexplained fire in Tesla's Houston Street laboratory. In this fire, he lost much of his equipment, notes and documents. This produced a state of severe depression for Tesla.

In 1915, legal ownership of the Wardenclyffe property was transferred to George Boldt for a $20,000 debt. Demolition and salvaging of the tower occurred in 1917. However, the main building remains standing to this day. Tesla was not in New York during the tower's destruction. George Boldt wished to make the property available for sale. New York papers reported that the tower had been destroyed by order of the government to prevent its use by foreign agents. In 1917, the United States government may have aided the destruction of the Wardenclyffe Tower, ostensibly because it was believed it could provide a navigational landmark for German submarines. The facts neither support nor discount either claim. On April 20, 1922 Tesla lost an appeal of judgment versus his backers in the second foreclosure. This effectively locked Tesla out of any future development of the facility.

Fight for radio
In 1904, the US Patent Office reversed its decision and awarded Guglielmo Marconi the patent for radio. Tesla began his fight to re-acquire his radio patent. Later in 1909, Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize for radio. Tesla was deeply resentful. So in 1915, Tesla filed a lawsuit against Marconi.

Tesla always disputed the claim that Marconi invented radio and he gave a simple reason for this position. It was that radio is not an invention: "It was evident to me in 1888 that wireless transmission of energy, if it could ever be accomplished, is not an invention; it is an art. Bell's telephone, Edison's phonograph, or my induction motor were inventions, but the wireless transmission of energy is an art that requires a great many inventions in combination.", (Nikola Tesla, 1916, in Ed. Anderson, Leland, 'Nikola Tesla On His Work With Alternating Currents And Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Energy, Published 1992). Seen in this context, some believe that it is Tesla's lecture and patent record from 1888 onwards that contains the fundamental information on the '....great many inventions...' that form the basis for modern radio and wireless technology.

An ongoing lawsuit regarding the patent battle was finally resolved in Tesla's favor in 1944, one year after his death. This decision was based on the facts of the prior work existing before the establishment of Marconi's patent. At the time, the United States Army was involved in a patent infringement lawsuit with Marconi regarding radio, leading some to posit that the government granted Tesla and others the formal recognition in order to nullify any claims Marconi would have to compensation (as the earlier award to Marconi nullified any claims Tesla would have for compensation).

Nobel rumors
Due to the fact that the Nobel Prize was awarded to Marconi for radio in 1909, it was believed that Tesla and Edison were to share the Nobel Prize of 1912 (and, later alone, in Nobel Prize of 1915). Tesla's rumored nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics was primarily for his experiments with tuned circuits using high-voltage high-frequency resonant transformers. It was possible that Tesla was told of the plans of the physics award committee and let it be known that he would not share the award with Edison.

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Nikola Tesla/References

External resources

 * Tesla writings
 * Tesla, Nikola, My Inventions, Electrical Experimenter magazine, Feb, June, and Oct, 1919. ISBN 0910077002 (teslaplay.com)
 * Tesla, Nikola, My Inventions, Electrical Experimenter magazine, Feb, June, and Oct, 1919. (rastko.org)
 * Tesla, Nikola, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900. (See also picture thinking.)
 * Tesla, Nikola, A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers. AIEE Transactions, Vol. 5, 1888, pp. 305-327. (Reprinted in the Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 72, 1984, pp. 165-173.)
 * Tesla, Nikola, Mechanical and Electrical Oscillators, reprinted in Nikola Tesla’s Teleforce and Telegeodynamic Proposals . (ed., L.I. Anderson; 21st Century Books, 1998).
 * Tesla, Nikola, The True Wireless. Electrical Experimenter, May 1919. (also at pbs.org)
 * Tesla, Nikola, Talking with Planets. Collier's Weekly, February 19, 1901. (EarlyRadioHistory.us)
 * Tesla, Nikola, Improved Apparatus for the Production of Powerful Electrical Vibrations; Novel High Frequency Measurement Techniques. Nikola Tesla: Lecture Before the New York Academy of Sciences, April 6, 1897 (ed., L.I. Anderson; 21st Century Books, 1994).
 * Tesla, Nikola, The Eternal Source of Energy of the Universe, Origin and Intensity of Cosmic Rays, New York, October 13, 1932

 * Biographical
 * Martin, Thomas Commerford, ""The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla"", reprinted by Barnes & Noble, 1995 ISBN 0-88029-812-X
 * Cheney, Margaret & Uth, Robert, ""Tesla, Master of Lightning"", published by Barnes & Noble, 1999 ISBN 0-7607-1005-8
 * O'Neill, John J., "Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola", 1944. ISBN 0913022403 (also at uncletaz.com; [also other items at the site])
 * Krumme, Katherine, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla: Thunder and Lightning. December 4, 2000 (PDF)
 * Kelley, Thomas Lee, "The enigma of Nikola Tesla". Arizona State University. [Thesis] (PDF)

 * General research
 * Hoover, John Edgar, et al., FOIA FBI files, 1943.
 * Pratt, H., "Nikola Tesla 1856-1943", Proceedings of the IRE, Vol. 44, September, 1956.
 * Wysock, W.C., J.F. Corum, J.M. Hardesty and K.L. Corum, "Who Was The Real Dr. Nikola Tesla? (A Look At His Professional Credentials)". Antenna Measurement Techniques Association, posterpaper, October 22-25, 2001 (PDF)
 * Roguin, Ariel, "Historical Note: Nikola Tesla: The man behind the magnetic field unit". J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2004;19:369-374. © 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
 * Sellon, J. L., "The impact of Nikola Tesla on the cement industry". Behrent Eng. Co., Wheat Ridge, CO. Cement Industry Technical Conference. 1997. XXXIX Conference Record., 1997 IEEE/PC. Page(s) 125-133. ISBN 0-7803-3962-2
 * Valentinuzzi, M.E., "Nikola Tesla: why was he so much resisted and forgotten?" Inst. de Bioingenieria, Univ. Nacional de Tucuman; Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE. Jul/Aug 1998, 17:4, p 74-75. ISSN 0739-5175

 * Cosmic Rays
 * Waser, André, "Nikola Tesla’s Radiations and the Cosmic Rays". (PDF)

 * Views on War
 * Secor, H. Winfield, Tesla's views on Electricity and the War, Electrical Experimenter, Volume 5, Number 4, August, 1917.
 * Florey, Glen, "Tesla and the Military". Engineering 24, December 5, 2000.

 * Stationary and scalar waves
 * Corum, K. L., J. F. Corum, "Nikola Tesla, Lightning Observations, and Stationary Waves". 1994.
 * Corum, K. L., J. F. Corum, and A. H. Aidinejad, "Atmospheric Fields, Tesla's Receivers and Regenerative Detectors". 1994.
 * Meyl, Konstantin, H. Weidner, E. Zentgraf, T. Senkel, T. Junker, and P. Winkels, "Experiments to proof the evidence of scalar waves Tests with a Tesla reproduction". Institut für Gravitationsforschung (IGF), Am Heerbach 5, D-63857 Waldaschaff.

 * Radio waves
 * Anderson, L. I., John Stone Stone on Nikola Tesla’s Priority in Radio and Continuous Wave Radiofrequency Apparatus, The Antique Wireless Association Review, Vol. 1, 1986, pp. 18-41.
 * Anderson, L. I., Priority in Invention of Radio, Tesla v. Marconi, Antique Wireless Association monograph, March 1980.
 * Marincic, A., and D. Budimir, "Tesla's contribution to radiowave propagation". Dept. of Electron. Eng., Belgrade Univ. (5th International Conference on Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Service, 2001. TELSIKS 2001. pp., 327-331 vol.1) ISBN 0-7803-7228-X
 * Page, R.M., "The Early History of Radar", Proceedings of the IRE, Volume 50, Number 5, May, 1962, (special 50th Anniversary Issue).

 * Induction motor
 * C Mackechnie Jarvis "Nikola Tesla and the induction motor". 1970 Phys. Educ. 5 280-287.

 * Other
 * "Giant Eye to See Round the World" (DOC)
 * Nichelson, Oliver, "Nikola Tesla's Energy Generation Designs", Eyring, Inc., Provo, Utah.
 * Nichelson, Oliver, "The Thermodynamics of Tesla's Fuelless Electrical generator". American Fork, Utah. (American Chemical Society, 1993. 2722-5/93/0028-63)
 * Grotz, Toby, "The Influence of Vedic Philosophy on Nikola Tesla's Understanding of Free Energy".

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Nikola Tesla/Sources

 * Tesla, Nikola, "My Inventions (An Autobiography)", Electrical Experimenter magazine, Feb, June, and Oct, 1919.
 * O'Neill, John J., "Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola", 1944. ISBN 0913022403
 * W.C. Wysock, J.F. Corum, J.M. Hardesty and K.L. Corum, Who Was The Real Dr. Nikola Tesla? (A Look At His Professional Credentials)". Antenna Measurement Techniques Association, posterpaper, October 22-25, 2001 (PDF)

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Diagnostic Radiology/Musculoskeletal Imaging/Tumors Basic/Hereditary Multiple Exostoses

Most common of osteochondrodysplasias characterized by formation of multiple osteochondromas.

Pathophysiology
Osteochondroma is continuous with underlying medullary and cortical bone.

A hyaline cartilage cap involutes after reaching skeletal maturity.

The solitary form is the only benign neoplasm associated with radiation.

Prevalence
1:50,000-1:100,000; 1:1,000 on Guam/Mariana Islands

Genetics

 * Autosomal dominant (incomplete penetrance in females); 3 distinct loci on chromosomes 8,11, 19
 * 2/3 of affected individuals have a positive family history

Age
Forms shortly after birth; virtually all patients discovered by 12 years of age; M:F = 1.5:1.0

Physical Appearance
Short stature (40%) due to development of exostoses at the expense of longitudinal bone growth

Location
Any portion of the skeleton preformed in cartilage may be involved.

Multiple and usually bilateral; knee (70-98%), humerus (50-98%), scapula and rib (40%), elbow (35-40%), hip (30-90%), wrist (30-60%), ankle (25-54%), hand (20-30%), foot (10-25%), pelvis (5-15%), vertebra (7%)

Site
Metaphyses of long bones near epiphyseal plate (distance to epiphyseal line increases with growth)_

Disproportionate shortening of an extremity (50%)

 * Upper Extermity
 * Pseudo-Madelung deformity
 * Ulnar shortening and longer bowed radius
 * Ulnar tilt of distal radial articular surface
 * Ulnar deviation of hand
 * Dislocation of radial head
 * Radioulnar synostosis
 * Shortening of 4th and 5th metacarpals
 * Supranumerary fingers/toes
 * Lower Extremity
 * Coax valga (25%)
 * Genu valgus (20-40%)
 * Valgus deformity of ankle = tibiotalar tilt (45-54%)
 * Undertubulation with widened metadiaphyseal junction:
 * Erlenmeyer flask deformity of distal femur

CT
Wavy pelvis sign = small sessile lesion create undulating cortical contour

Fig. 1 Lateral and AP views of forearm demonstrate exostoses arising from the distal radius and proximal ulna. The radial head and the radiocapitellar joint are dysplastic. Pseudo-Madelung deformity is present with ulnar tilt of distal radius articular surface and ulnar subluxation of hand.

Fig. 2 AP shoulder on the same patient demonstrates exostoses of the proximal humerus and scapula body. Soft tissue masses in the axilla were considered overlapping shadows.

Fig. 3 Views of the femur demonstrate multiple sessile osteochondromas. The proximal femur involvement gives the femoral neck a widened appearance.

Clinical Significance
If not discovered incidentally by radiograph, multiple exostoses may create symptoms depending on its size and location. Impingement of nerves and tendons or inflammation of overlying bursae may contribute to pain. The most concerning potential cause of pain, however, is malignant sarcomatous transformation, which occurs in 10-20%!

Treatment and Followup

 * There is no universally accepted standard for follow-up of multiple exostoses. Most consider annual routine clinical exam in children as the standard, with radiographs if symptomatic. Difficult regions to assess clinically, such as the pelvis, may warrant radiographic studies routinely.
 * The cartilage cap is a useful part of the neoplasm to focus on in a radiographic study:
 * Benign < 1.5 cm or 2.0 cm.
 * Malignant > 1.5 cm or 2.0 cm.
 * However, it is common for patients with osteochondromas to develop a bursa over the exostosis. It can be extremely difficult to distinguish this bursa from a cartilage cap and vice versa.
 * Keep in mind that in a skeletally immature patient, growth due to young age will thicken the cartilage cap and simulate malignancy.
 * Follow-up is typically done routinely by radiographs: increasing destruction or change in appearance of the cartilage mantle is worrisome for malignancy.
 * Ultrasound is useful to evaluating cap thickness and overlying bursae.
 * MRI T2-weighted images are the most useful for evaluating the cartilaginous cap.
 * Bone scan is generally nonspecific, but may identify sites that are more active and merit closer attention.


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Instructional Technology/HPT in the Workplace

What is Human Performance Technology?
Human Performance Technology as described as:
 * an analysis of present and desired levels of job performance, that identifies the causes for the performance gap
 * a multidisciplined approach to the development of interventions that improve performance
 * guides the change management process and evaluates the results (source: www.ispi.org)

Human performance technology takes a systematic approach to improving job performance in the workplace, such as conducting a needs assessment, cause analysis, design of recommendations or solutions, implementation of resolution and evaluation and results of the new interventions implemented to improve performance. To achieve effective multifacted interventions, needs assessments are critical to improving performance in the workplace. Most organizations do not find that the time spent to implement a needs assessment is worthwhile, because it can be quite time consuming depending on the type of changes required to improve performance within the organization and among its employees.

Needs Assessment
[According to Robert Rouda and Mitchell Kusy, Jr (1995), states that a needs assessment identifies the current state and conditions of performance and in what specific manner the performance should be performed. "There are four steps to completing a needs assessment: perform a gap analysis, identifying priorities and importance, identify causes of performance problems and/or opportunities, and identifying possible solutions and growth."]

Gap Analysis
[A "gap analysis" examines and compares the current work situation and conditions to the desired work situation and conditions. Questions to consider:] The answers to these questions will help us to find the current performance gaps, if any, and aid in creating a process to move toward the desired performance, while providing support or rationale for a business case to implement change within the workplace, whether its on an individual level (job change) or organizational level (corporate policies and procedures). To address results found in our needs assessments, we should consider the various interventions that can be used to address the causes for the gap in performances, such as training, organizational changes and its goal, possible changes staff changes.
 * Problems or deficits. Are there problems in the organization which might be solved by training or other HRD activities?
 * Impending change. Are there problems which do not currently exist but are foreseen due to changes, such as new processes and equipment, outside competition, and/or changes in staffing?
 * Opportunities. Could we gain a competitive edge by taking advantage of new technologies, training programs, consultants or suppliers?
 * Strengths. How can we take advantage of our organizational strengths, as opposed to reacting to our weaknesses? Are there opportunities to apply HRD to these areas?
 * New directions. Could we take a proactive approach, applying HRD to move our organizations to new levels of performance? For example, could team building and related activities help improve our productivity?
 * Mandated training. Are there internal or external forces dictating that training and/or organization development will take place? Are there policies or management decisions which might dictate the implementation of some program? Are there governmental mandates to which we must comply? (Robert Rouda and Mitchell Kusy, Jr, (1995))

Identifying priorities and importance
Robert Rouda and Mitchell Kusy, Jr. (1995)states that we must "determine if the identified needs are real, if they are worth addressing, and specify their importance and urgency in view of our organizational needs and requirements. Some questions to consider: If some of our needs are of relatively low importance, we would do better to devote our energies to addressing other human performance problems with greater impact and greater value."
 * Cost-effectiveness: How does the cost of the problem compare to the cost of implementing a solution? In other words, we perform a cost-benefit analysis.
 * Legal mandates: Are there laws requiring a solution? (For example, safety or regulatory compliance.)
 * Executive pressure: Does top management expect a solution?
 * Population: Are many people or key people involved?
 * Customers: What influence is generated by customer specifications and expectations?

Identify causes of performance problems and/or opportunities
Rouda and Kusy (1995) states that "we must know what our performance requirements are, if appropriate solutions are to be applied. Consider the following two questions for every identified need: This will require detailed investigation and analysis of employees, their jobs, and our organizations -- both for the current situation and in preparation for the future.
 * Are our people doing their jobs effectively?
 * Do they know how to do their jobs?

Identify possible solutions and growth opportunities
Training and/or other interventions might be called for if sufficient importance is attached to moving our people and their performance into new directions. But if our people ARE NOT doing their jobs effectively:
 * Training may be the solution, IF there is a knowledge problem.
 * Organization development activities may provide solutions when the problem is not based on a lack of knowledge and is primarily associated with systematic change. These interventions might include strategic planning, organization restructuring, performance management and/or effective team building. (Rouda and Kusy (1995))

We must understand that performance improvement “is not an isolated activity, but has three interrelated goals:]] For these three goals to be achieved, Caravagalia (1993) states that to ensure the transfer of training (performance improvement), it must include: Hence, understanding how adults learn is critical to guaranteeing that the desired skills are transferred and performance will improve. Skills transfer, or the transfer of training, is truly a systematic process that requires the involvement of not only the training area, the employee but the entire organization. It is critical that the selected intervention used to improve performance directly links to the organization’s goals or initiatives, because the success of any given organization heavily relies on the performance of its employees. As IT professionals, when presented with a HPT project we must stress the importance of a needs assessment, because the answer may not be as straightforward as training.
 * (1) learning and;
 * (2) applying the learning on the job (training transfer)
 * (3) the organization meets its objectives”. (Schouborg, 2001, pp.203-218)
 * (a) use realistic examples of how the skill might be used;
 * (b) give learners meaningful contexts for the application of concepts rather than presenting theory without application;
 * (c) include the opportunity to practice the skills in the design of the learning event;
 * (d) present new concepts in several different ways; transfer of training is more likely to occur when concepts appear in several different training contexts;
 * (e) use clear and effective visual aids;
 * (f) consider the use of pre-training assignments;
 * (g) keep concepts and skills as close as possible to the work generally done by participants in their everyday jobs;
 * (h) building in post-training follow-up with participants;
 * (i) encourage the organization(s) to develop supportive environments for the continued learning in the workplace after training has taken place. (Caravaglia, 1993, Ensure Transfer of Training, pp.63-68)

References:
 * HTTP://www.ispi.org./HPT_institute/
 * Garavaglia, Paul L., “How to Ensure Transfer of Training.”, Training and Development October 1993, pp. 63-68.
 * Roscoe, Stanley, Aviation Psychology, Ames: Iowa University Press. 1980.
 * Rouda, Robert & Kusy, Mitchell,(1995), Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry
 * Schouborg, Gary (2001), “How to Increase Training Effectiveness by Systems      Thinking”, In The 2001 Annual: Volume 1 Training. Editor, Elaine Biech. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001, pp. 203-218..


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Diagnostic Radiology/Musculoskeletal Imaging/Tumors Basic/Aneurysmal Bone Cyst

An aneurysmal bone cyst is an expansile osteolytic bony lesion composed of blood-filled spaces separated by connective tissue septa of bony trabeculae or osteoid tissue and osteoclast giant cells

Epidemiology/Prevalence

 * Almost always present in patients < 30 years old. 80% in 5-20 year olds.
 * Very slight male to female predominance before 14 year old; after, slight female to male predominance (i.e. 1.16:1.00).
 * ~1% of all bone tumors.
 * 1.4 cases per 100,000 worldwide.

Types

 * 1) Primary (~70%) - no known cause or association with other bony lesion.
 * 2) Secondary (~30%) - occurs in conjunction with another lesion or trauma. Some suggest using ‘principal lesion concomitant with hemorrhagic or cystic changes’ instead. Typical primary lesions include eosinophilic granuloma, simple bone cyst, chondroblastoma, giant cell tumor, or osteosarcoma.

Clinical Presentation
Pain

Radiologic Findings

 * expansile
 * lucent lesion in the proximal tibial metaphysis and epiphysis
 * abutting the joint space
 * no periosteal reaction
 * no matrix evident
 * patient is skeletally immature (physeal plates not completely fused)

Location

 * ~60% in long bones (mostly metaphyseal and eccentric)
 * tibia, femur, and spine (posterior elements) top three locations
 * If in flat bones, majority in pelvis.

Differential Diagnosis

 * Osteoblastoma and osteoid osteoma (especially when location is posterior spinal elements)
 * Lytic metastasis (should have more aggressive features)
 * Unicameral bone cyst (usually central)
 * Giant cell tumor (skeletally mature, epiphyseal and abut articular surface when in non-flat bones)
 * Osteosarcoma (but typically has osteoid matrix, aggressive features)

Treatment
Biopsy is recommended to differentiate from more aggressive lesions. When primary, wide resection is recommended. If curettage alone is used, 25% recur. So when location makes wide resection unfeasible, aggressive curettage (i.e. liquid nitrogen, embolization, etc.) is needed. When secondary, treat the primary lesion.


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Diagnostic Radiology/Musculoskeletal Imaging/Tumors Basic/Multiple Myeloma

Multiple Myeloma is a neoplasm of differentiated plasma cells resulting from malignant clonal expansion and overproduction of monoclonal immunoglobulins. Common complications include recurrent bacterial infections, anemia, osteolytic lesions and renal insufficiency.

Etiology
The cause of multiple myeloma is unknown, but risk is increased with radiation exposure and patient's with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Long term follow-up (30years) has shown that multiple myeloma develops in up to 16% of patients with MGUS.

Clinical Presentation
Multiple myeloma occurs in older adults, with a median age of onset of 65 years. It is more common in men and in African American population. Patients can be asymptomatic. Presenting symptoms include bone pain, fatigue, and pathologic fractures. They have strong diagnostic value if accompanied by more than 10% atypical plasma cells in the bone marrow and either a monoclonal immunoglobulin in the serum or light chains in the urine.

Bone lesions, hypercalcemia and anemia correlate directly with tumor burden.

MRI can detect involvement of the vertebral marrow in 50% of patients with indolent myeloma (asymptomatic MM with fewer than 4 osteolytic lesions and normal renal function).

Myeloma cells can induce increased cytokine release, especially interleukin 6 which activate osteoclasts provoking bone resorption.

Treatment
High dose or low dose melphalan, cyclophosphamide and glucocorticoids with or without bone marrow/stem cell transplant. Bisphosphonates (pamidronate) have been used to treat hypercalcemia and appears to reduce the incidence of skeletal complications (pathologic fractures, need for irradiation, spinal cord compression) and bone pain.

Radiologic Images
Conventional radiography, bone scans, CT, MR, and PET can be utilized to study patients for myeloma. Typically, skeletal radiography and MR surveys of the axial skeleton are both used in documenting extent of disease and response to treatment. In addition, consequences of multiple myeloma, such as compression fractures can be determined.

Conventional Radiographs
On skeletal surveys, images are obtained as follows:
 * 1) Lateral skull
 * 2) AP and lateral total spine (including cervicothoracic and lumbosacral lateral views)
 * 3) AP pelvis
 * 4) AP humeri and femori

Well-defined lucent lesions within the bone are suspicious for myeloma. Approximately 50% of bone destruction is required for conventional radiographs to detect these lesions.

There are four distinct types of myeloma involvement:
 * 1) Solitary lesion (plasmocytoma) - typically involves the spine, pelvis, skull, ribs, sternum, and proximal appendages.
 * 2) Diffuse skeletal involvement - myelomatosis
 * 3) Diffuse skeletal osteopenia - no well defined lytic lesions; compression fractures are common.
 * 4) Sclerosing myeloma - associated with POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes).

The number of lytic bone lesions, along with other clinical factors (M protein, serum hemoglobin, serum calcium, renal function), are used to stage the patient and estimate tumor burden. The Durie-Salmon staging system for multiple myeloma separates patients into 3 stages. Radiographically, if a patient has 2 or more lytic lesions, they are stage III. If they have no bone destruction or a solitary plasmacytoma, they are stage I or II, depending on the other clinical factors.

MRI
Malignant plasma cells tend to distribute themselves in areas of normal active hematopoesis. In adults, this is in the axial skeleton; therefore, MR surveys tend to image the axial skeleton.

On T1-weighted sequences, focal plasmacytoma will appear hypointense relative to the hyperintense marrow. Diffuse involvement will demonstrate diffuse hypointensity of the marrow relative to musculature and disk spaces.

On T2-weighted or STIR sequences, focal plasmacytoma is hyperintense relative to the background marrow. Diffuse involvement will demonstrate diffuse marrow hyperintensity relative to musculature.

Case 1
This image demonstrates a typical "punched-out" lesion in the skull on plain film.

Case 2
This case demonstrates progression of myeloma with increasing lucency within the iliac wing lesion.

Case 3
Here are correlative images of myeloma in the spine on a plain film, CT, and MR (hypointense to marrow on T1, hyperintense on STIR).

Case 4
These images are a CT and MR (T1 and STIR) of a rib lesion.

Case 5
This is an example of myeloma in the ischium on plain film and MR (STIR).

Case 6
There is subtle lucency on the plain film of the proximal femur. The MR shows extensive myeloma involvement.


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Game Maker Programming/Global GUI

Edit, Run and Add Menus

 * 1) New File - Opens a new game maker file
 * 2) Open File - Opens a saved game maker file
 * 3) Save - Saves the current game maker file
 * 4) Run Game(F5) - Compiles and Runs the current game maker file
 * 5) Run Game in debugging mode - Compiles and Runs the current game maker file with a debugging screen
 * 6) Add a Sprite
 * 7) Add a Sound
 * 8) Add a Background
 * 9) Add a Path
 * 10) Add a Script
 * 11) Add a Font
 * 12) Add a Time Line
 * 13) Add a Object
 * 14) Add a Room
 * 15) Change Game Information - Displays the game information (Information displayed when a user presses F1 in the game)
 * 16) Change Global Game Settings - Displays a variety of Game Settings which take effect globally
 * 17) Unlock Game Maker - Provides Information on how to purchase Game Maker
 * 18) Help - Provides extensive help on Game Maker functions, variables and statements.

run game Possibly the biggest advantage game maker has over program based games, is that from almost any stage of completion, the game can be run to see what its like. I suppose you are wondering what debug mode is. Well, it is unnecessary until you can program in GML (game maker language) so don't worry about it.

 add a sprite Well a sprite (who picked the name sprite) is a picture. The majority of things in any 2d game have a sprite. A sprite is basically an image, or a collection of images making a short animation. Collectively your list of sprites in-game are just all the images your game puts on top of each other to create a game.

 add a sound As the name says, this adds a sound. Although, sounds are not really worth adding unless you are slightly more advanced. Also in the unregistered version I don't think you can get a sound from a file. Meaning that it has to be stored in the .exe file (in the game).

If you don't know the mechanics of an exe file, think of an exe file as a machine. Normally in games the exe file knows where to find all the resources (i.e. pictures, sounds, menu's etc.) and combines them all into a game, which it then spits out onto your screen (look in you program files, for most programs there is an exe file and a dozen or so folders containing files that the program reads, uses, etc..). Storing everything inside the .exe file slows down the running speed of the .exe itself, also longer load times etc., so eventually (when you get better with game maker) it is better to have the files external (not inside the .exe file).

 add a background This is very similar to sprites. Backgrounds are used like the background of your computer's desktop. Everything goes on top of the background.

add an object Now if you remember before, I told you that a sprite is just a large set of images. An object is what you see in-game, or may not see as the case may be. It defines the rules which the sprites follow. Say a sprite were to go left when the left arrow was pressed. The object tells the sprite to go left, if the left key is pressed. You can do a lot of functions, under a lot of events (when something happens, i.e. keypress). events include-

on left mouse click when keyboard button is press on collision with another object every step (every 0.06 seconds)

and the functions include things like move left change the sprite play a sound create another object

Each event can govern many functions. Also, rather helpfully they are well worded- on collision with bullet create instance of object_explosion & play the sound explosion.midi

Resource Navigator
Note that some of these resources are only shown if Game Maker is set to advanced mode.

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Emergency Medicine/Pediatric Airway Emergencies

= Pediatric Upper Airway Emergencies = = Introduction =
 * Telluride EMS ==
 * Almost all pediatric “codes” are of respiratory origin ==

The majority of pediatric cardiopulmonary emergencies are caused by airway obstruction - this may be from a foreign object in the airway, swelling of the epiglottis (epiglotitis), croup (parainfluenza virus), or a peritonsillar abscess.

= Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Arrests =

= Age distribution of arrests = = Anatomy = = Airway Anatomy =
 * Nose/Mouth ==
 * Pharynx ==
 * Epiglottis ==
 * Trachea ==
 * Cricoid Cartilage ==
 * Bronchi ==
 * Bronchus ==
 * Lungs ==
 * Diaphragm ==
 * Alveoli ==

= Physiology: Effect of Edema = = Children are different = = Anatomy : Nose = = Anatomy : Tongue = = Anatomy : Larynx =
 * Narrow dimensions leave little margin for obstruction; infants: ==
 * = 1mm glottic edema = 35% obstruction ===
 * = 1mm subglottic edema = 44% narrowing ===
 * Large epiglottis (nearly touches soft palate) and large tongue = nasal breathing ==
 * = nasal obstruction can lead to significant resp. distress ===
 * Nose is responsible for 50% of total airway resistance at all ages ==
 * Infant: blockage of nose = respiratory distress ==
 * Large ==
 * Loss of tone with sleep, sedation, CNS dysfunction ==
 * Frequent cause of upper airway obstruction ==
 * High position ==
 * = Infant : C 1 ===
 * = 6 months: C 3 ===
 * = Adult: C 5-6 ===
 * Anterior position ==

= Assessment: Look before taking hx Signs of Respiratory Distress = = Impending Respiratory Failure = = History =
 * Tachypnea ==
 * Tachycardia ==
 * Grunting ==
 * Stridor ==
 * Head bobbing ==
 * Flaring ==
 * Inability to lie down ==
 * Agitation ==
 * Reduced air entry ==
 * Severe work ==
 * Cyanosis despite O2 ==
 * Irregular/shallow breathing or apnea ==
 * Altered Consciousness ==
 * Diaphoresis ==
 * The above require immediate progression to laryngoscopy and intubation. ==
 * Description of Onset ==
 * = sudden or gradual? why? ===
 * = Other symptoms? what? ===
 * History of foreign body aspiration/ingestion ==
 * Aggravating factors: feeding ==
 * History of intubation ==
 * = when? why? ===
 * Birth history (syndromes, birth trauma) ==
 * = vocal cord paralysis ===

= Physical Exam = = Physical Exam = = Exam by obstruction =
 * Inspection ==
 * Ascultation ==
 * Repositioning ==
 * respiratory rate ==
 * nasal flaring ==
 * use of accessory muscles ==
 * respiratory fatigue ==
 * retractions ==
 * STRIDOR ==
 * = expiratory or inspiratory ===
 * = what does a variation in stridor pattern indicate until proven otherwise? ===
 * nasal ==
 * = nl voice or cry, nasal flaring, snorting ===
 * oropharyngeal ==
 * = nl voice (may be throaty), inspir, stridor, drooling, mouth open/jaw forward ===
 * supraglottic ==
 * = muffled/throaty voice (“hot potato”), inspir stridor, difficult feeding ===

= Exam by obstruction =
 * glottic ==
 * = hoarse or aphonic, biphasic stridor ===
 * subglottic ==
 * = biphasic stridor, nl feeding, barking cough ===
 * tracheobronchial ==
 * = 	expirat stridor or wheeze ===

= Management =
 * More detailed lecture on pediatric airway management another time - Dr. Wheeler? ==
 * Peds cardiopulmonary resusc (PALS) another time ==
 * But quickly... ==

= Airway positioning for children <2yrs =

= Airway Positioning =

= Nasopharyngeal Airway = = Adjuncts: Oral Airway = = Adjuncts: Oral Airway = = Adjuncts: Oral Airway =

= Intubation: Indications =
 * Failure to oxygenate ==
 * Failure to remove CO2 ==
 * Increased WOB ==
 * Neuromuscular weakness ==
 * CNS failure ==
 * Cardiovascular failure ==
 * *No LMA with airway obstruction ==

= Intubation Technique = = Intubation Technique = = Intubation =

= < 6 mos. Congenital = = Case # 1 = = What’s the diagnosis? = = Treatment = = Epiglottitis = = Case #2 =
 * Pediatric Airway Emergencies... ==
 * usually hx of weeks - months of Sx ==
 * laryngomalacia ==
 * = incr. w/ crying/URI/work of breathing ===
 * = dec. w/ neck extension/prone ===
 * = rarely - resp. distress failure to thrive, apnea, feeding problems ===
 * vocal cord paralysis ==
 * = h/o birth trauma, shoulder distocia, macrosomia, forceps delivery ===
 * = difficult intubation - angle then turn; no force ===
 * Arnold-Chiari malformation - neuro defs ==
 * A 3-year-old previously healthy male was brought to the emergency room after a 1 day history of high fever. He has not been drinking as much as he usually does,and his parents relate that he has been becoming more restless over the past 2–3 hours. This is how he looks as you begin to evaluate him ==
 * What do you notice/want to know? ==
 * History ==
 * = abrupt ===
 * = high fever ===
 * = sore throat ===
 * = stridor ===
 * = dysphagia ===
 * = drooling ===
 * Physical ==
 * = toxic appearing ===
 * = apprehensive ===
 * = ashen-gray color ===
 * = tripod positioning ===
 * = neck slightly extended with chin forward “sniffing” ===
 * = no cough ===
 * = muffled voice ===
 * Epiglottitis ==
 * Prior to H. Flu vaccination was in younger patient population (preschool age) ==
 * now older kids with staph and strep bugs ==
 * Life-threatening (up to 50% mortality) ==
 * DO NOT PLACE ANYTHING IN MOUTH: ==
 * = laryngospasm ===
 * Transport ==
 * Do not jostle ==
 * Position of comfort ==
 * High flow humidified oxygen ==
 * resp. fatigue, further obstruction, apnea ==
 * = assist ventilation with BVM with secured pop-off valve --> inc. insp. pressures ===
 * racemic epinephrine?  ==
 * In the ED... ==
 * A 16-month-old female is rushed to your emergency room after the terrified parents are awakened by stridorous breathing. ==
 * Patient has had a few days of rhinorrhea, nasal congestion, and cough. ==
 * Tonight the patient has a barking cough, biphasic stridor (insp > exp), intercostal retractions, and tachypnea. ==

= What is the diagnosis? = = Case #3 =
 * Croup - laryngotracheobronchitis ==
 * How do you treat a mild case? ==
 * humidified oxygen/ cold air ==
 * If patient has stridor at rest or in resp distress? ==
 * Racemic epinephrine - dec. edema (careful with LV obstruction)    and ==
 * dexamethasone .3 mg/kg PO (10 mg/ml IV sol) ==
 * heliox - less dense than N2 to decrease airway resistance, but need 60-80% conc helium, so can’t have 40% O2 requirement ==
 * Resting stridor, inc. PCO2, dec. PO2, AMS, cyanosis, < 1y --> resp. failure ==
 * Consider elective intubation if: ==
 * = 2 catech nebs in 1 hr + getting worse ===
 * = hourly nebs beyond 2nd hr ===
 * = AMS assoc. with resp distress ===
 * = worsening despite tx ===
 * = severe croup + neonatal lung disease ===
 * = mod. to severe croup requiring transfer ===
 * *use tube .5-1mm smaller to avoid subglottic stenosis ==
 * On scene you find a 3 year old male in play room with difficulty breathing in arms of frightened mother. ==
 * “I was on the other side of the room with my back turned and I heard him suddenly wheezing.” ==
 * The child is now standing next to you. You hear stridor.  The child has shallow breathing with strong coughs occasionally, but is moving air.  Child can whisper responses to your questions. ==
 * What do you want to do? ==
 * Encourage to cough and visualize oropharynx to see if you can remove FB. ==
 * You are unable to visualize any FB and the child begins to have severe difficulty breathing, moving less air, but still maintaining airway. What do you want to do prior to transport? ==
 * Laryngoscope and Intubate ==

 * Before you get a chance to directly visualize the airway, the child loses his airway (cannot move air, cough, vocalize), but is still conscious. What do you want to do? ==
 * Heimlich maneuver until obstruction relieved or unconscious ==
 * And if this was an infant? ==
 * 5 back blows/ 5 chest thrusts w/ head down until obstruction relieved or unconscious ==
 * = to avoid injury to abdominal organs ===
 * The child becomes unconscious. What do you want to do? ==
 * Attempt ventilation ==
 * if no airway management equipment - back blows/chest thrusts vs abd. thrusts ==
 * between each cycle - visualize and remove visible FB *no blind sweeps - ventilate ==
 * If you have airway management equipment - direct laryngoscopy, visualization, suction, removal of FB with McGill forceps, intubation if needed ==

= Foreign Body Aspiration = = Other Ped. Airway Emergencies =
 * 1-3 yo peak - 90% < 4 yo ==
 * toys & food ==
 * = cylindrical or small, smooth, and round ===
 * = peanuts, sunflower seeds, raisins, hot dogs, small sausages ===
 * unilateral wheezing on auscultation if distal ==
 * Bacterial Tracheitis ==
 * Retropharyngeal Abscess ==
 * Peritonsillar Abscess ==
 * etc. ==


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Biblical Studies/Christianity/Eschatology/Signs of the Times

End Time Events Supported by The Bible

 * The airplane − Isaiah 31: 5 − EXAMPLE: Fly-over
 * The automobile − Nahum 2: 4 − EXAMPLE: Road rage
 * Atomic power − II Peter 3: 12 − EXAMPLE: Chernobyl melt-down
 * Invention of radio, radar, & telephone − Job 38: 35 − EXAMPLE: Air-waves
 * Global telecommunications − Revelation 11: 9 − EXAMPLE: Ability to do real time viewing of events that transpire in other continents.
 * Invention of TV, satellites, & Telstar − Revelation 1: 7 − EXAMPLE: CNN
 * Marked increase in knowledge − Daniel 12: 4 − EXAMPLE: Relatively recent discoveries of tau neutrinos; dust mites, Helium II, volcanoes on Io, gamma-ray bursts, relativistic jets, and coronal mass ejections.
 * Jet powered planes − Ezekiel 38: 9 − EXAMPLE: Airbus
 * Marked increase in running to and fro − Daniel 12: 4 − EXAMPLE: Recent emergence of international jogging industries.
 * Excessive pride − II Timothy 3: 2 − EXAMPLE:
 * Manufacturing of armaments − Joel 3: 10 − EXAMPLE:
 * Disregard for the needy − Ezekiel 16: 49 − EXAMPLE: Iraq Oil-For-Food scandal
 * Pleasure-seekers − II Timothy 3: 4 − EXAMPLE:
 * Shorter work week − Ezekiel 16: 49 − EXAMPLE:
 * Overeating − Luke 17: 27-28 − EXAMPLE:
 * Exchanging wives − II Timothy 3: 6 − EXAMPLE:
 * Increase in divorce − Luke 17: 27 − EXAMPLE:
 * Broken homes − Matthew 24: 12 − EXAMPLE:
 * Building boom − Luke 17: 28 − EXAMPLE:
 * Increase in the ungodly − Jude 15 − EXAMPLE:
 * Despisers of good − II Timothy 3: 3 − EXAMPLE:
 * Insurgents abound − II Timothy 3: 3 − EXAMPLE: Enduring Freedom and Iraq Freedom Operations
 * Violence − Genesis 6: 11 − EXAMPLE:
 * Labor strikes − James 5: 4 − EXAMPLE:
 * Greediness − I Timothy 6: 10 − EXAMPLE:
 * Burdensome taxes − Daniel 11: 20 − EXAMPLE:
 * Heaping up wealth − James 5: 3 − EXAMPLE:
 * Widespread distress − Luke 21: 25 − EXAMPLE: New Orleans, Waveland, Biloxi, Mobile under water. 8-30-05
 * Nations crumbling − Ezekiel 37: 22 − EXAMPLE:
 * Wars and rumors of wars − Matthews 24: 6 − EXAMPLE:
 * Headstrong leaders, dictators, bossy spirit − II Timothy 3: 4 − EXAMPLE: 2019
 * Increase of crime − II Timothy 3: 13 − EXAMPLE:
 * Sudden heart failure − Luke 21: 26 − EXAMPLE: Death rates from heart disease in New York City are among the highest recorded in the country, and no one quite knows why. NY Times Online 8-18-05
 * Children’s revolt against parents − II Timothy 3: 2 − EXAMPLE:
 * Ungrateful society − II Timothy 3: 2 − EXAMPLE:
 * Women’s movement − Isaiah 4: 1 − EXAMPLE:
 * Political divisions − Isaiah 32: 5-8 − EXAMPLE: Impeachment inquiry 2019
 * Boasters, complainers − Jude 16 − EXAMPLE:
 * Critical of government − II Peter 2: 10 − EXAMPLE:
 * Lukewarm condition of the church − Revelation 3: 15 − EXAMPLE:
 * Ritualistic churches − II Timothy 3: 5 − EXAMPLE:
 * Faithless churches, doctrines of devils − I Timothy 4: 1 − EXAMPLE:
 * Many dishonor their bodies − Romans 1: 24 − EXAMPLE:
 * AIDS epidemic− Romans 1: 27 − EXAMPLE:
 * Incurable diseases rampant − Matthew 24: 7 − EXAMPLE:
 * False prophets − Matthew 24: 11 − EXAMPLE:
 * False messiahs (christs) − Matthew 24: 5 − EXAMPLE:
 * Increase of earthquakes − Matthew 24: 7 − EXAMPLE: Earthquake and the Tsunami in Asia 2004
 * Famines (food shortages) − Matthew 24: 7 − EXAMPLE: Anticipated impact of global warming.
 * Fearful signs in the heavens − Luke 21: 11 − EXAMPLE:
 * Regathering of Israel − Ezekiel 37: 21 − EXAMPLE:
 * Israel becomes a nation − Ezekiel 38: 8 − EXAMPLE: On May 15, 1948, Israel was established as a nation.
 * Israel persecuted − Jeremiah 30: 4-5 − EXAMPLE:
 * Persecution of believers − Matthew 24: 9 − EXAMPLE:
 * Disbelief in Christ’s return − II Peter 3: 3-4 − EXAMPLE:
 * Spiritual revival among true believers − Joel 2: 28 − EXAMPLE:
 * Pillars of smoke − Joel 2: 30 − PROOF OF CONCEPT: Vertical smoke cloud caused by a nuclear detonation and/or smokey contrails from rocket launchings.
 * Sun black as sackcloth − Revelation 6:12 − PROOF OF CONCEPT: Darkness during the crucifixion (Matt. 27:45 and The Apocryphal Gospel of Peter (Frag. I, V, 15-20)); the hour long solar blackout of 879 A.D.; and the three hour solar blackout of June 3, 1239.
 * Red Moon during black Sun − Joel 2:31; Revelation 6:12 − PROOF OF CONCEPT: Red wide area lunar luminescence during November 1, 1963 and March 26, 1970.
 * Emergency global migrations to dens − Revelation 6:15-16 − PROOF OF CONCEPT: Switzerland's underground shelters can accommodate seven million people.
 * Future meteoroid impact − Revelation 8:8 − PROOF OF CONCEPT: Impact crater beneath the Atlantic Ocean at Chesapeake Bay (53 miles in diameter) and discovery of Near-Earth Objects (NEO).
 * Superluminal communication and/or transportation − Revelation 8:12 − PROOF OF CONCEPT: Solutions to general relativity equations allow faster than light travel.
 * Solar directed migrations of birds to Armageddon − Revelation 19:17 − PROOF OF CONCEPT: Verified role of magnetoreceptors in the navigation behavior of birds.

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Category:Blueberry recipes

Recipes involving blueberries.

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Category:Omelette recipes

Recipes for omelettes.

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