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Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he was king for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible
Nave's Topical Bible - Abner; Armies; Hebron; Ish-Bosheth; Israel; Judah; Mahanaim; Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom; Thompson Chain Reference - Judah; Tribe; Torrey's Topical Textbook - Benjamin, Tribe of; Judah, the Tribe of;
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ishbosheth; Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ephraim; Judah, tribe and kingdom; Easton Bible Dictionary - Israel; Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abner; Ishbosheth; Jonathan; Saul; Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of; Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abner; Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abner ; Ishbosheth ; The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Joab; People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hebron;
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - David; Ish-Bosheth; Reign; Samuel, Books of; The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abner; Forty, the Number; Ish-Bosheth; Rehoboam;
Ish-bosheth - reigned two years - It is well observed that Ish-bosheth reigned all the time that David reigned in Hebron, which was seven years and six months. Perhaps the meaning of the writer is this: Ish-bosheth reigned two years before any but the tribe of Judah had attached themselves to the interest of David. Some think that Abner in effect reigned the last five years of Ish-bosheth, who had only the name of king after the first two years. Or the text may be understood thus: When Ish-bosheth had reigned two years over Israel, he was forty years of age. Houbigant, dissatisfied with all the common modes of solution, proposes to read שנה ששית shishshith shanah, six years, for the שנים שתים shetayim shanim, two years, of the text, which he contends is a solecism; for in pure Hebrew the words would be שנה שתים as they are everywhere read in the first book; and שנה is the reading of eleven of Kennicott's MSS., and nine of De Rossi's; but the number two is acknowledged by all the ancient versions, and by all the MSS. yet collated. The critical reader may examine Houbigant on the place. After all, probably the expedition mentioned in the succeeding verses is that to which the writer refers, and from which he dates. Ish-bosheth had reigned two years without any rupture with David or his men, till under the direction of Abner, captain of his host, the Israelites passed over Jordan, from Mahanaim to Gibeon, and being opposed by Joab, captain of David's host, that battle took place which is described in the following verses.
Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/2-samuel-2.html. 1832.
Forty … two - The numerals are somewhat strange. First, as regards the 40 years. Even assuming that Ish-bosheth's reign did not commence until five and a half years after Saul's death, which must have been the case if the two years in the text gives the true length of his reign, it is startling to hear of Saul's younger son being 35 years old at his father's death, born consequently some three years before his father's accession, and five years older than David, the bosom friend of his older brother Jonathan. The age, too, of Jonathan's child, Mephibosheth, who was five years old at his father's death, would lead one to expect rather a less age for his uncle. Next, as regards the two years. Since David (compare 2 Samuel 2:11; and marginal references) reigned seven years in Hebron over Judah only, it follows, if the two years in the text are correct, either that an interval of five years elapsed between Ish-bosheth's death and David's being anointed "king over all Israel," or that a like interval elapsed between Saul's death and the commencement of Ish-bosheth's reign. Of the two the latter is the more probable, and has the advantage of diminishing Ish-bosheth's age by between five and six years. But the narrative in 2 Samuel 4:1-12 of the "long war," of the birth of David's six sons, and of Abner's conspiracy and death, seems to imply a longer time than two years, in which case both the numerals would have to be corrected.
Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/2-samuel-2.html. 1870.
Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel,.... Being born the same year his father began to reign. See Gill on 1 Samuel 31:6,
and reigned two years; which some understand of these, and no more; and whereas David reigned seven years and a half over Judah, before he reigned over all Israel, it is thought by the Jewish chronologerF3Seder Olam Rabba, c. 13. p. 37. that there was a vacancy in the throne of Israel for the space of five years, and so says Kimchi; which vacancy was either before the reign of Ishbosheth, it being a matter in dispute whether he or Mephibosheth should be set up, or after his death; the tribes of Israel being so long before they acknowledged David their king; or Ishbosheth's reign of two years must be in the middle of David's reign over Judah; but there is no need to suppose either of these, for the text says not that Ishbosheth reigned only two years; but the meaning is, as Ben Gersom observes, that he had reigned two years when the following things happened, and a war began, and not by him but by Abner, and carried on by him; and he being an inactive prince, the rest of his reign was reckoned as no reign, whereas he lived and reigned the same length of time David did over Judah; see 2 Samuel 3:1,
but the house of Judah followed David; kept close to him as their king, yielding a cheerful obedience to him.
Gill, John. "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/2-samuel-2.html. 1999.
Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
Two years — Namely, before the following war broke out, which continued five years.
Wesley, John. "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/wen/2-samuel-2.html. 1765.
2 Samuel 2:10 Ishbosheth Saul's son [was] forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
Ver. 10. And reigned two years,] sc., Peaceably and quietly, before war fell out betwixt him and David. So Saul is said to have reigned two years, [1 Samuel 13:1] that is, free from foreign enemies, and unmolested by the Philistines. After this, there was five years' war betwixt the house of Saul and the house of David, till Ishbosheth's death. [2 Samuel 3:1]
But the house of Judah followed David.] Yet were they not guilty of the sin of schism: no more are the Reformed Churches, for forsaking of Antichrist, to follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth, to set the crown upon the Lord Christ's head.
Trapp, John. "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". John Trapp Complete Commentary. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/2-samuel-2.html. 1865-1868.
2 Samuel 2:10. Ish-bosheth—was forty years old,—and reigned two years— Ish-bosheth was born in the year that Saul was made king, for Saul reigned forty years, Acts 13:21. Ish-bosheth reigned two years, says the sacred writer. Now, by referring to the next verse, and the first of the next chapter, we shall see that this is to be understood with some restriction. Ish-bosheth reigned all the time that David resided at Hebron, that is seven years and a half; but they both reigned two years in peace, without attacking each other; which seems to be all that the sacred historian would affirm. The five last years of Ish-bosheth's reign, were rather the years of Abner's reign than of his own; for this general left him only the name of a king. Different solutions are given to this passage by other interpreters. Houbigant, in particular, reads six instead of two years, but without any authority; and Le Clerc and Schmidt think, that Ish-bosheth really reigned only two years; an opinion utterly irreconcileable with the next chapter. Possibly, the words reigned two years, may be considered as referring to what follows in the 12th verse, to mark out the epocha of the commencement of hostilities between the two kings; and so they might be rendered, and he had reigned two years: then, inclosing the next and what follows in a parenthesis, the 12th verse might begin, Then Abner, &c. The phrase, went out, in that verse is military; and we frequently find to come in and go out, used in that sense in Scripture.
Coke, Thomas. "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tcc/2-samuel-2.html. 1801-1803.
Reigned two years, to wit, before the following war broke forth; compare 1 Samuel 13:1; for that he reigned longer, may appear both from the following verse and from 2 Samuel 3:1, and from the following history; though some think he reigned only two years, and that the rest of David's seven years the Israelites by Abner's instigation stuck to the house of Saul, but were in suspense whether they should confer the crown upon Mephibosheth the right heir, but a child; or upon Ish-bosheth, a grown man, whom with some difficulty, and after long debates amongst themselves, they preferred.
Poole, Matthew, "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/2-samuel-2.html. 1685.
10.Ishbosheth' reigned two years — The next verse informs us that David reigned in Hebron ever Judah seven years and six months, and therefore we must naturally conclude that for five years and six months the other tribes of Israel were without an acknowledged king. It is altogether gratuitous to assume, as some critics have done, that Ishbosheth reigned all the time that David reigned in Hebron. It is probable, however, that David was king in Hebron some time before Ishbosheth began to reign. David seems to have been anointed very soon after Saul's death, but it must have taken Abner some time to gather up the scattered army and recover from the defeat and losses of Gilboa sufficiently to attend to the inauguration of Ishbosheth. So it is likely that David reigned in Hebron a year or more before the son of Saul was anointed at Mahanaim. Then followed two years of strife and bickering between the two governments, which was of sufficient length to be called "long war." 2 Samuel 3:1. And after both Abner and Ishbosheth had been vilely assassinated, it is but natural to suppose that the northern tribes would wait some years to observe the manner of David's government before they all came together to acknowledge and anoint him king. See on 2 Samuel 5:1.
Whedon, Daniel. "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/whe/2-samuel-2.html. 1874-1909.
He reigned two years, viz., before he began visibly to decline: but in all he reigned seven years and six months: for so long David reigned in Hebron. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- The Jews admit of an interregnum in Israel of above five years, which is by no means probable. Two years elapsed before the two houses came to an open war; (Salien) soon after which, the power of Isboseth was greatly weakened by the defeat, and afterwards by the defection, of Abner. (Haydock) --- Hence the sacred historian refers to the commencement of hostilities, and not to the end of Isboseth's dominion. (Estius; Tirinus; Calmet)
Haydock, George Leo. "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". "George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hcc/2-samuel-2.html. 1859.
Ish-bosheth ... reigned two years. It was not until seven years and a half after Saul's death that the way was paved for David's elevation to the throne of Israel (2 Samuel 2:11). So that if Ish-bosheth had succeeded immediately on the death of his father, his reign in Israel must have been commensurate with that of David in Hebron. The statement, therefore, that 'Ish-bosheth reigned two years' must refer either to the time that elapsed after he was made king, before the war broke out between him and David, or to an inter-regnum of 5 1/2 five years and six months in Israel, when, through the great influence of Abner, he was raised to the throne of his father, and had occupied it for two years when he was cut off.
Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/2-samuel-2.html. 1871-8.
Houbigant proposes to read shesh shanah, "six years" instead of shetayim shanim, "two years," of the text, which he contends is a solecism; for, in pure Hebrew, the words should be shetayim shanah; and this is the reading of twenty MSS.; but two is acknowledged by all the versions and MSS. yet collated.
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:14 - Ishbosheth; Psalm 18:43 - from
Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on 2 Samuel 2:10". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/2-samuel-2.html.


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What fair use? Three strikes and you're out… of YouTube
Film critic Kevin Lee found his YouTube account closed and his video essays …
Nate Anderson - Jan 16, 2009 12:09 am UTC
If there's one thing we've heard repeatedly from content owners when it comes to user-generated content, it's that there's no need to worry; fair use would be respected. But Kevin Lee's story shows just how many problems remain with the content owners' use of DMCA takedown notices, and the chilling effects that such notices can have on speech.
Lee is a film critic and blogger perhaps best known at the moment for watching the 1,000 best films ever made and writing about them at his website. As part of his work, he has evolved an online video essay format that uses film clips like a professor might, as part of his criticism and commentary. Each essay was short, but Lee eventually uploaded more than five hours of such material to YouTube. After YouTube passed on a third DMCA notice this week, though, the company disabled his account and removed all his work.
The problems began a few years back, when Lee uploaded some short (1-3 minutes), but unedited film clips. He tells Ars that he was using them "to illustrate points I was making in my blog entries on those films," but the clips themselves were simply copied from the films in question. They attracted DMCA takedown notices, which Lee did not contest, apparently on the belief that the brief but unedited clips might in fact be infringing.
Lee eventually moved to the video essay format, where he edits clips together and comments on them, making his work much more obviously critical in nature; even an outside observer who didn't read Lee's blog should realize that these were bits of film criticism, not simple reposts of films or film clips.
But Lee's recent essay on the film ...And God Created Woman attracted a third DMCA takedown notice from the rightsholder. YouTube duly passed it along to Lee, but since this was his "third strike," it also shut down his account. "Unfortunately," Lee told Ars in an e-mail, "the first instance of a claim on a video that I felt absolutely qualified as fair use was also the 'third strike' against my account, so my account was disabled before I could file a counternotice."
Overzealous?
Under the DMCA, the mere filing of a counternotice would be enough to get the work reposted. If a rightsholder continued to feel that the work was infringing, the case would have to go before a judge.
Lee says that his opinion of YouTube has changed. "This development removes any belief I have in YouTube as a place that values the work I do," he says. "Clearly, their priority is legal self-protection over making provisions for something that can be deemed of legitimate cultural value." Lee plans to upload his work to another video-sharing site, and he might try YouTube again under a different account—but this time he would file DMCA counternotices immediately upon receiving a warning.
Canadian lawyer Michael Geist, opposed to a DMCA-style system for Canada, notes, "At issue here is not YouTube—they are just following the DMCA notice-and-takedown system—but rather the DMCA system itself, which regularly demonstrates the chilling effect of taking down content without any analysis of whether there is actually an infringement."
This issue isn't just one that affects effete New York latte-sipping film critics, either (not that Lee is any of these things); the McCain campaign complained last year about the exact same issue, and how DMCA takedown notices could—even if bogus—exert a serious, chilling effect on speech.
The campaign asked for some human intervention, requesting that YouTube take a look at complaints and refuse to act on them in cases of obvious fair use. YouTube responded with a strong "no."
DMCA claims turn politicians into fair use advocates
YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine made two key points at the time. The first was that having YouTube determine "fair use" claims is difficult and risky for the site. As Levine notes, "Lawyers and judges constantly disagree about what does and does not constitute fair use. No number of lawyers could possibly determine with a reasonable level of certainty whether all the videos for which we receive disputed takedown notices qualify as fair use." YouTube is not about to 1) spend more money and 2) risk its safe harbor by getting involved in such battles.
So, for now, any DMCA request will be acted upon, and it's up to the recipients of such notices to file counternotices quickly if they believe their work stands on solid legal ground. Having one's videos pulled from a site like YouTube isn't the end of the world, but it's a big deal when your work depends on reaching others. If visitors have to find your work on a new YouTube channel or another video-sharing site, if they have to change any embedded videos that they posted on their blogs, the disruption has real consequences.
Lee's case also raises questions about how rightsholders undertake the (legitimate) task of policing content sites like YouTube. The content industry has issued its own set of principles that it believes should govern user-generated content, and it nods at fair use. But cases like Lee's continue to happen.
Another video essayist and critic, Matt Zoller Seitz, notes that using film clips in his videos has gotten harder recently. "In the past few weeks," he writes, "I've seen a few of my rip-dependent video essays (most of which I believe I could defend as fair use-exempted work) taken off YouTube or denied publication in the first place. For the the most part, attempts to appeal the decision appeared to have been round-filed by the company."
It's one thing to go after complete film clips that are five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes long, and complete copies of films are obvious and totally acceptable targets for DMCA takedowns. But given all that low-hanging fruit to pluck, it's a mystery why the content industry continues to harrass these other sorts of use that, if anything, would drive more viewers to watch the films in question.
These kinds of short-sighted legal actions have the unintended effect of revving up opposition to all rightsholder complaints, legitimate ones included, and they encourage a disrespect for copyright. If the content industry is serious about abiding by its own set of UGC principles, granting far more leeway in areas that simply don't matter would go a long way toward keeping people on its side when content owners protest far more offensive practices.
Nate Anderson Nate is the deputy editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees long-form feature content and writes about technology law and policy. He is the author of The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed.
Email nate@arstechnica.com // Twitter @natexanderson


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'The first pop intellectual'
In tribute to Jack Good, who died on 24 September 2017, we publish here an extract from Alwyn Turner's book Halfway to Paradise (V&A Publications, 2008) on Good's early television work.
Intended to run for just six weeks in 1957, Six-Five Special actually lasted two years and, under its co-producer, Jack Good, it changed the nature of pop television entirely.
An Oxford graduate who had turned to acting, and had even appeared as a stand-up comedian at the legendary Windmill Theatre, Good had recently joined the BBC as a trainee television producer. Crucially, he was already a convert to the cause of rock and roll, having attended a screening of Rock Around the Clock: 'I was totally bowled over by the simple display of animal force and energy – and I loved it,' he said, impressed not so much by the music as by the audience reaction, which he felt had all the vigour and passion that was lacking in modern theatre.
Good 'was the first pop intellectual', noted rock commentator Nik Cohn, and certainly he was the first person with a toehold in the establishment to embrace rock and roll, to see it as more than a passing gimmick.
When he persuaded the BBC to make a youth show, he determined to recreate that sense of excitement he had felt on seeing Bill Haley's film. In particular, he took the revolutionary step of placing the audience between the camera and the performer, so that they could be seen dancing to the music of the live bands. And he refused to patronize his viewers by pretending that a television programme was somehow an objective observation of an event; instead he admitted frankly that this was a constructed experience: 'Who gives a damn if a camera comes into shot?', he asked rhetorically.
He didn't, however, have things all his own way. His co-producer on the series was Josephine Douglas, who had much more traditional ideas: 'Jo wanted film excerpts on mountaineering – hobbies-for-the-youngsters kind of a programme; I wanted all music.' His solution was elegant: he invited Douglas to present the show, along with disc jockey Pete Murray, thereby ensuring her absence from the control box.
And, although Six-Five Special did emerge as a magazine show, with sports features and with resident comedians Mike and Bernie Winters, it was the music that caught the popular imagination. Amongst those who benefited most from the programme were Tommy Steele and Lonnie Donegan, while Marty Wilde, Jim Dale and Vince Eager got their first break here.
For a while Six-Five Special was an unmissable event – it was even reported that street gangs in Liverpool changed their meeting time on Saturdays from seven to seven-thirty so that they could catch it – but, as the novelty of its existence wore off, the restrictions of the format began to grate.
'It may be argued that the show set out to be a teenagers' programme, and has never claimed to be essentially an all-music show,' wrote one of the NME's correspondents in January 1958. 'But it is my belief that a majority of viewers are interested solely for its music content, and all else is just so much ballast. By all means, have the occasional relevant interview, but some of the comedy is a little trying.' By then a new co-producer had been appointed in the shape of Dennis Main Wilson, a man who was probably the greatest producer of broadcast comedy ever (The Goons, Hancock's Half Hour, Sykes), but who had little to contribute on the music front.
Although the audiences were still impressive (up to 12 million at its peak), there was too much of a sense of compromise. An outside broadcast in November 1957 came from the 2 I's coffee-bar, which had some cultural point, but which also included for no obvious reason an appearance by Gilbert Harding, television's first grumpy old man. Harding was later to re-enact the broadcast in the film of Expresso Bongo, where he insisted: 'Teenagers are regarded by the corporation with the deepest reverence.' This might have explained the limitations of the show.
The first to realize that the series was becoming stale was Jack Good himself, who jumped ship and defected to ITV, where, unfettered by anyone else at all – or so it seemed – he created his masterpiece, Oh Boy!
Indulging his theatrical tendencies, Oh Boy! featured fabulously dramatic lighting, stylized stagings and nothing but rock and roll. There was no room here for the jazz and skiffle that had been part of Six-Five Special, just a half-hour show comprising a virtually seamless sequence of songs, for Good proved to have an unrivalled ear for mixing material.
Coming live from the Hackney Empire, the audience was this time not seen on screen, although their screams could be heard at strategic moments and were apparently even more powerful in the flesh. 'They just continued screaming in ecstasy from the beginning to the end of the song,' remembered Engelbert Humperdinck, who appeared on the show under his earlier name of Gerry Dorsey. 'There was such a din, I doubt that they could have heard a single note I sang.'
In any event there would have been little room on screen for the audience, for the stage behind the stars was already filled with the house-band (Lord Rockingham's XI), male backing vocalists (the Dallas Boys), and the massed ranks of the Vernons Girls. This latter outfit had been specially created by Good out of what had been the Voices of Vernons, a vocal group recruited from the employees of the pools company in Liverpool; he saw them, decided they were all wrong ('lumbering women squeezed into tight, gold lamé dresses, chortling musical comedy numbers', he shuddered; 'the result was nauseating'), and reinvented them as a team of younger women. Two of them, Joyce Baker and Vicki Haseman, were later to marry Marty Wilde and Joe Brown respectively.
Oh Boy! was a show that, in the words of sometime Old Grey Whistle Test presenter Bob Harris, was 'raw and fabulously exciting'. It revolutionized the look not only of rock but of television more widely for, as George Melly pointed out, Good's influence became ever more apparent in the subsequent decade: 'he virtually invented the pop style.'
It was also a show on which Good's word was law, especially when it came to selecting material. Marty Wilde was the intended star of the series, but when Good heard 'Misery's Child', the follow-up to 'Endless Sleep', and agreed with the singer that it was indeed a stinker, he simply refused to allow it to be performed. In a huff, and picking a fight that he couldn't possibly win, Larry Parnes withdrew Wilde from the show, thereby ceding the field to the new kid on the block, Cliff Richard.
Cliff Richard on Oh Boy! (photograph: Harry Hammond)
Cliff was already heavily indebted to Good. When an EMI plugger played the first single to Good, it was he who insisted that the sides be flipped, so that the mundane 'Schoolboy Crush' was relegated to the B-side and 'Move It' promoted to be the featured track. He then schooled Cliff intensely in the arts of television performance, getting him to shave off his sideburns and abandon his guitar, so that he didn't come over as a simple Elvis-impersonator, and running him through his act again and again.
'Before he went in front of the cameras we rehearsed every move, every blink, every twitch,' he said later. 'Cliff Richard in Oh Boy! was just a figment of the imagination which this shy youngster from Cheshunt brought to life before millions of viewers.'
The act they concocted proved satisfactorily controversial. 'Is this boy too sexy for television?', demanded the Daily Mirror, and even the NME waded in: 'crude exhibitionism', it concluded, 'revolting – hardly the kind of performance any parent would wish their children to witness'. Asked to comment, Cliff shrugged off the criticism: 'It doesn't worry me when someone writes his opinion. But why did he have to choose that one show as being different from any other? After all, I'm always sexy!'
The first Oh Boy! went out in September 1958 in a head-to-head scheduling clash with Six-Five Special. The BBC show now had a new producer, Russell Turner, who promised that a revamp would make the series 'bigger, noisier, brighter and brasher'.
The line-up on that critical Saturday, however, didn't look particularly spectacular – the likes of Ronnie Aldrich and the Squadronaires, Ronnie Keene and his Cha-Cha Band, Bernard Bresslaw and Russ Hamilton – compared to Oh Boy!, with Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard and the John Barry Seven. And Jack Good.
Within a couple of months it was clear to everyone concerned that Six-Five Special was a busted flush, and by the end of the year it had been cancelled.
Jack Good as Theseus (right) in a 1955 production of Hippolytus by the Oxford University Dramatic Society
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Acasa > Reviste > Obstetrica şi Ginecologia > Opinii şi recomandări curente pentru utilizarea meşei în chirurgia ginecologică – review al literaturii
Opinii şi recomandări curente pentru utilizarea meşei în chirurgia ginecologică – review al literaturii
Current opinions and recommendations for mesh use in gynecological surgery – literature review
L. Pirtea, Cristina Secoşan, G. Crăciun, Profira Boştină, Ligia Bălulescu, Oana Balint, Dorin Grigoras
Pelvic organ prolapse treatment remains controversial in current practice, given the abundance of procedures with or without uterine preservation and with or without the use of synthetic (polypropylene) mesh. We present a review of data available in literature regarding the benefits, complications, warnings and recommendations for polypropylene mesh implants in gynecological surgery. The recommendations for polypropylene mesh in the correction of each anatomic compartment defect are reviewed.
polypropylene mesh, FDA, pelvic organ prolapse
Tratamentul prolapsului genital rămâne controversat în practica de zi cu zi, din cauza numeroaselor posibilităţi terapeutice – cu sau fără conservarea uterului, cu sau fără folosirea meşei sintetice (de polipropilenă). Prezentăm un review al datelor disponibile în literatură referitoare la beneficiile, complicaţiile, atenţionările şi recomandările pentru implanturile de meşă de polipropilenă în chirurgia ginecologică. Sunt revizuite recomandările pentru fiecare defect anatomic, pe compartimente, pentru corecţia cu meşă.
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U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warnings
The increasing incidence of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) represents an important health issue in developed countries. This is due to the higher perspectives and to increasing demands regarding the quality of life and also to the higher life expectancy among women. The use of synthetic transvaginal mesh (polypropylene mesh) in the treatment of POP has increased in popularity until the end of the last decade, and then plateaued in 2008 after the US Food and Drug Administration released a notification about mesh-related complications(1). The second FDA warning from 2011 regarding mesh-related complications lead to a decrease in mesh use. Concurrently, the number of sacrocolpopexy procedures increased considerable starting 2008, as the use of laparoscopic/robotic technique and the interest regarding transvaginal mesh increased(2).
In general, the life-time risk of undergoing surgery for POP in women is estimated between 11% and 19%. The rate of reoperation after the use of native tissue repairs after 20 years is approximately 11%. Polypropylene mesh implants were designed to improve the anatomic outcomes and rapidly gained popularity. However, the use of polypropylene meshes in urogynaecological procedures has been reevaluated by the US Food and Drug Administration.
In 2008, the FDA issued a public health notification (PHN) which underlined that complications of mesh insertion for POP and stress urinary incontinence (SUI) were not as rare as previously reported, and that various situations must be met before their use. These included having enough surgical training, improved disclosure to the patient of the risks and benefits of synthetic versus native material used in repairs, and creation of a better adverse outcomes reporting system. The FDA released a PHN in July 201, followed by a Committee Opinion No. 513.9. These emphasized the importance of appropriate training of physicians, the significance of the surgeons' awareness on the risks of the procedures, the demand to be vigilant for side effects, and the need for patients to be informed about the permanent nature of these products, that secondary surgery may be required, and this surgery may not correct the complication. The patient must be informed that the quality of life can be affected if a complication occurs, and that she should be offered a written copy of the patient labelling on her mesh. In addition to the informed report of serious side effects or death, hospitals were encouraged to declare lesser forms of complications to MedWatch (the FDA safety information and adverse event reporting program)(3).
In summary, all these events have showed the strengths and weaknesses of the way the public is protected by federal health agencies, health care institutions, and health care providers(4).
As a result, the FDA recommendations are that women considering surgery for pelvic organ prolapse should:
Before surgery – be aware of the risks associated with transvaginal POP repair; to know that having a mesh surgery can increase the risk for secondary surgery because of the mesh-related complications; be informed by their surgeons about all POP treatment options; understand why their surgeon recommends the treatment with mesh for POP(5).
After surgery – continue with annual and regular check-ups and follow-up care; notify the appearance of any complication; in case of secondary surgery, inform the health care providers about previous mesh implants; discuss their concerns and ask their surgeons at their next routine check-up whether they received mesh for their POP surgery if they are unaware a mesh was used(5).
European Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) warnings
In the European Commission's SCENIHR report, the most recently database about the use of surgical meshes, it is suggested that the use of synthetic materials in surgery has well-established benefits, but also major risks. It is stated that the risk is dependent on the location of mesh placement and the condition it is used for. Numerous complications related to synthetic mesh have been mentioned, such as infection, erosion into other organs, chronic pain and dyspareunia, exposure in the vagina, and shrinkage of polypropylene meshes(6).
To evaluate the risks for mesh use, it is important to differentiate between indications: SUI and POP.
For most patients with moderate-to-severe SUI, the SCENIHR admits the efficacy and use of polypropylene meshes. Most complications associated with mesh insertion are related to the route of insertion. In conclusion, SCENIHR states that meshes for SUI have lower risks compared to meshes inserted for POP implanted vaginally. Following evidence based on clinical guidelines, its use must be restricted for selected patients.
A significant point is to evaluate the available options when surgical treatment for SUI is an option. The choices may include: synthetic midurethral slings (MUSs) using polypropylene tapes, bulking agents, colposuspension, and autologous sling surgery. In complex cases with recurrent prolapse in the same compartment, only synthetic mesh for POP should be used. The utilization of synthetic mesh should be restricted to those surgeons who are working in multidisciplinary referral centers, with appropriate training. The patients need to be aware of the possible risks and complications of this therapy, and to be informed about alternative therapies(7).
Mesh-related complications
Currently, there is no consensus on mesh use in transvaginal surgical repairs for the treatment of POP. According to FDA, mesh erosion through the vagina, chronic pelvic pain, local infection, bleeding, dyspareunia, organ perforation, and urinary problems are the most frequent complications. Mesh contraction may be associated with vaginal shortening, tightening, and pain(8). The majority of complications occur in the first five years after the surgical procedure. The information regarding the FDA's reports on the use of synthetic mesh in POP repair should be made available to patients at the time of surgical planning and should be used as an adjunct in the process of obtaining informed consent(9).
To mesh or not to mesh?
The surgical options for POP have traditionally encompassed colporaphy and/or vaginal colpopexy or sacrocolpopexy.
The surgical procedures were classified by compartment (anterior, posterior and apical). The patients with simultaneous multi-compartment repair were classified under "multiple" compartment repair(10).
The placement of polypropylene mesh for POP was introduced in order to decrease the failure rate of native tissue repair and make POP surgery easy to learn and to perform(11-13). In the following section, we have reviewed the current recommendations for mesh in POP surgery use for each compartment.
1. Stress urinary incontinence
The involuntary loss of urine is a common health condition which can affect the quality of life. Up to 77% of women residing in nursing homes and ten to twenty percent of women have urinary incontinence, but only 25% look for or obtain treatment(14,15). Stress urinary incontinence is a prevalent condition and has an impact on a woman's quality of life. There are a lot of treatment options available for patients with symptomatic stress urinary incontinence. There is no optimal therapy for all patients with SUI. Options include colposuspension, slings (pubovaginal and midurethral), and periurethral bulking. While evidence supports each of these options in the treatment of SUI, each is associated with various rates of success(16).
Tension-free vaginal slings in retro-pubic, single-incision or transobturator techniques reveal a high success rate, with few complications, and have almost completely replaced the more invasive abdominal surgical techniques for the operative management of stress incontinence. Ten years ago, the use of vaginally-placed mesh for SUI was supported by level I evidence. The safety and efficiency of mesh for mid-urethral support in the treatment of SUI is not controversial, as it has been proven in long-term clinical trials(17). Retropubic or transobturator placement of mid-urethral mesh slings has become the standard of care for SUI. Single-incision slings combine the proven functional principle of suburethral slings with a high success rate and the advantages of using less material, while eliminating the blind passage during insertion.
2. Anterior compartment
The most common site of POP is the anterior compartment, followed by posterior and apical defects. Polypropylene anterior compartment mesh offers improved results compared with native tissue repair; however, these benefits must be considered in the context of increased morbidity associated with anterior polypropylene transvaginal mesh(19). Native tissue anterior compartment prolapse repair remains an important surgical procedure for pelvic prolapse. Native tissue repair has been well-studied and is successful in relieving vaginal bulge symptoms and reducing prolapse within the vagina(20).
3. Apical defects – gold standard
The gold standard, for over 50 years, has been established as the use of abdominally placed artificial materials, including mesh for apical vaginal support. Sacropexy is a well known technique and currently the gold standard in the repair of apical defects. It is considered to be the most adequate approach for restoring the vaginal apex and length(21,22). Especially for recurrent prolapse, the use of polypropylene mesh leads to an improved anatomic and functional result(23,24). However, in most cases of complex POP, different procedures can be necessary in order to correct all compartments(25). Erosion rates are significantly lower while meshes are inserted by laparoscopic or abdominal way compared to vaginal route. Several studies emphasized an increase rate of the novo cystocele after promontopexy due to the modification of the normal vaginal axis and exposure of the vaginal anterior wall to the abdominal pressure. Other techniques for the correction of the apical compartment, such as laparoscopic pectopexy, were reported by Noe et al.(26,27). Compared to sacropexy, the suspension point is lower, at the level of ilio-pectineal ligaments, but there is no change in the normal vaginal axis(28).
4. Posterior compartment
Posterior vaginal wall prolapse is a weakness in the strong tissue layers that divides the vagina from the lower part of the bowel, causing the back wall of the vagina to bulge into the vagina. Most often, patients with prolapses complain of bowel symptoms. Due to their high incidence in women, these symptoms demand a careful evaluation before surgery in order to link them to the prolapse. Posterior repair is a surgical procedure to repair or reinforce the weakened layers between the rectum and the vagina. For mid rectoceles by vaginal route, it is recommended to repair the rectovaginal fascia without levatorplasty. The transvaginal approach is superior to the transanal approach for repairing the posterior wall prolapse. The biological grafts are not recommended. In the first-line surgical procedure of posterior compartment prolapse to the transvaginal approach, there is no indication for the using of polypropylene meshes due to lack of evaluation and morbidity. In the symptomatic low rectocele, only superficial colpoperineorrhaphy must be suggested. Sacrocolpopexy is the procedure of choice for vaginal vault prolapse, but there is still a place for non-prothetic vault suspension by vaginal route according to the age of the patient, the comorbidities and associated surgical procedures(29). In symptomatic posterior vaginal wall prolapse, there is only one option to propose: surgical option by vaginal way. In order to avoid worsening of preoperative symptoms or a de novo fecal incontinence, which can lead to a dramatic decrease of the patients' quality of life in this functional surgery, an anorectal evaluation can be required before surgery.
Provided there is sufficient support for the anterior wall and apex of vagina with mesh, posterior compartment repair without mesh may be as effective as repair with mesh for anatomical recovery while providing better anorectal function(30).
Pelvic organ prolapse treatment = hysterectomy?
Hysterectomy during the treatment for POP has been currently practiced for a long time, in many cases the removal of the uterus being the sole procedure used for POP treatment. Hence, during the last decade, attention has been brought to uterus-sparing surgery. First of all, simple hysterectomy does not solve the problem of POP, and several studies have highlighted the potential benefits of uterus preservation in treating POP, such as decreased operative time and avoidance of complications related to the hysterectomy procedure. The results in pelvic floor status appear to be similar in the total and subtotal hysterectomy groups, and some advocate that the preservation of the cardinal ligaments could be beneficial for pelvic floor static. The disadvantages of uterus preservation are related to the risk of developing cervical or endometrial cancer, risks that are the same as in the general population(31-33).
International recommendations – American and European current guidelines
In Great Britain, the total number of POP procedures has increased since 2005, with a peak in 2014 (N=29,228). With regard to vaginal prolapse, surgical meshes were considered in a few selected cases, whereas native tissue repairs represented more than 90% of the procedures. The number of sacrospinous ligament fixations (SSLFs) grew more than three times over the years, whereas sacrocolpopexy remained the same. To treat vault prolapse, transvaginal surgical meshes have been gradually abandoned. We also noted a permanent increase in uterine-sparing and obliterative procedures. According to FDA, in 2010, approximately 300,000 women underwent surgical procedures for POP and approximately 260,000 underwent surgical procedures to fix stress urinary incontinence in the USA.
In approximately one-third of patients the synthetic mesh was used, and in one-quarter the surgical procedure was performed transvaginally(34).
The lack of experience and the lack of proper training in reconstructive pelvic surgeries, as well as the availability of easy-to-handle kits are considered to be related to the exponential increase in the number of mesh-related complications. Since the introduction of mesh in pelvic surgeries, the incidence of postoperative complications has remained elevated, despite improvements in short- and long-term outcomes. An algorithm was developed to speed up the prompt recognition and the treatment of vaginal mesh exposure, aiming to help gynecologists and urologists to achieve better outcomes and success rates(35).
Based on a review of adverse events reported to the FDA and on the assessment of scientific literature, US Food and Drug Administration has identified serious safety and effectiveness concerns with the use of surgical mesh for the transvaginal repair of pelvic organ prolapse.
Following FDA and SCENIHR warnings, a secure trend for meshes has only been seen in uterine-sparing surgery. Currently, synthetic mesh implants remain the gold standard for the treatment of SUI and apical defects, whereas for the anterior and posterior defects, full disclosure must be offered to the patient before performing the procedure and, at the same time, native tissue repair should be taken into consideration for these types of defects. Shifts in surgical practice should be taken into account for urogynaecologists' training.
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Tag: 59'th year
Today is my 59th birthday, and I really did a blog post every
day since my 58th birthday a year ago. You can read them all at the fifty
ninth year tag.
I count 3 days that I really cheated. 2 of them I was sick in
bed. I posted "I'm sick in bed so I'm not going to post today,"
posts not so much because I couldn't have stayed out of bed long
enough to do a post, but because even the low-grade fever I was
running seemed to be affecting my concentration enough to make
it hard to frame sentences and paragraphs.
The other was a newbie mistake. I started a post that took
longer than I had, and instead of figuring out how to split it
into two, I just posted that you'd get it later or tomorrow, and
it was tomorrow.
There have been a couple that were embarassing, and a lot more
that were "What can I write about that will be easy?" and were
mostly other people's work. You'll get fewer of those now that
I'm not going to make myself post every day whether I want to or
But I do find that I like blogging, and will probably want to
continue. I don't think I've turned into a great reviewer, but
I feel less lonely now that when I read a book or see a movie I
like I can post about it and several dozen (at least) people
read it. And I find my posts about recipes I've enjoyed cooking
are useful to me when I'm thinking about doing a similar thing
again. The same is true of some of my posts about how I cope
with the technology of my new toys.
Some of what I wanted to accomplish was to improve my writing
skills. I don't think what I write when I take a lot of time to
polish and rewrite it is a lot better than it was a year or even
10 years ago, but I have learned a lot about how to prune an
idea so that I can do a comprehensible piece of writing about it in half
an hour.
I heard a writer interviewed on the radio who had
gotten started because his AA sponsor wanted him to write about
his life for an hour a day. After a few months of doing that,
he realized that if he could write a couple of pages a day, he
could have a novel in 6 months. I don't think this is true for
me — even if I've written a book's worth of pages about, say,
Bonnie's death and what I did and how I felt, it's still quite a
lot of work between that and a real book.
Although I have some good posts on the spindle, I will probably
take a couple of days off before posting again, so have a good
weekend. I won't be forcing myself to post when I have lots of
other things that have to get done that day, so posts on Tuesday
and even Wednesday may get fairly rare, because that's when I do
the work of running the band and publishing the music for it.
But this is definitely au revoir, not adieu.
Author Laura ConradPosted on February 25, 2010 Categories UncategorizedTags 59'th yearLeave a comment on I did it!
Snow Dog at the Dog Park
We had a good snow sculpture snow last week, and someone made
this dog at the dog park.
I've been researching cell phones with better cameras, and
cameras that fit better in a pocket, and haven't found anything
for less than $80, which seems frivolous. But I might get
annoyed enough at the great pictures I'm missing that I'll just
get myself a birthday present.
Author Laura ConradPosted on February 24, 2010 Categories UncategorizedTags 59'th year, city life, pets, toysLeave a comment on Snow Dog at the Dog Park
Beer for the dying
At the beginning of Victoria's
memorial service, George, her husband, gave a welcome speech.
The first memory he told us about was of the last few
weeks or months of her life, when every morning she would wake up
and they would share a beer. Even on her last day, he wet her lips
with some beer, and he thought he could see a smile.
This reminded me of the story my uncle told after my Grandmother's
funeral. He
had visited her the weekend before she died. He'd
asked her if there was anything he could get her or do for her to
make her more comfortable, and she asked him to bring her a beer.
I didn't think of her as a beer-drinker at all — she drank wine
with dinner, and sometimes a brandy before bed. But apparently
one of the things that shuts down when you're dying is your
ability to swallow, and beer was what she believed would go down
the easiest.
This makes me sad that I
didn't work harder to bring Bonnie (who was a beer drinker) beer
when she was dying. I just assumed that it would conflict with
all the other drugs she was taking, and be a problem for all the
tubes. At the period when I was spending a lot of my visiting time giving
her sponges to wet her mouth with, I did bring some coffee, and it
turned out to be a mistake — the diuretic effect of even less than an
ounce of decaf coffee was too much for the tubes she was on.
This is only two anecdotes, but until recently I didn't really
hear that many anecdotes about the care of the dying, so the
fact that there are two suggests that there might be lots more.
So maybe the institutions and people who deal with the dying all
the time should try to figure out how they could provide the benefits of
beer to all their patients.
Author Laura ConradPosted on February 23, 2010 Categories UncategorizedTags 59'th year, beer, Bonnie, death, health careLeave a comment on Beer for the dying
Polish Pastries
I've been struggling with Windows all morning, so instead of
telling you about yesterday's
concert, I'll just show you the pictures I took of the
pastry. I mostly got the homemade ones; there were also some
good ones ordered from the internet.
The way my family makes them, mazurki are a cookie base
with chocolate, nuts, and fruit on top. When I went to Poland
at Easter, we spent the whole of Holy Week making several dozen
kinds.
Author Laura ConradPosted on February 22, 2010 Categories UncategorizedTags 59'th year, performing, recipesLeave a comment on Polish Pastries
Victoria Bolles, RIP
Victoria from her obituary at the
local paper.
I mentioned a few
days ago that I had two Memorial Services I wanted to go
to yesterday afternoon. The one I actually went to was for
Victoria Bolles, a friend from the West Gallery
Quire.
Victoria from her Facebook Page
I didn't know Victoria that well until I started sending anyone
who wanted to read them long emails about Bonnie's condition. She
was an enthusiastic member of the West Gallery Quire — I may have
first noticed her when she turned out to know how to pronounce
Welsh. She and her husband George were the first people who
started bringing food to share at the breaks, which is now an
established custom. There was a Shape Note Singing that would
normally have been small, but robust, but for some reason the day
I showed up there was only me, Bonnie, Victoria and George for
quite a while at the
beginning. This meant that I had to sing the lead without any
assistance, and they were all quite helpful about finding songs
that were suitable for that.
When I set up the bonnienews mailing list, Victoria subscribed
even though I don't think she knew Bonnie any better than she knew
me. At one point she sent me a very supportive email:
I wish I could say how my heart goes out to you as you keep your
steadfast watch by Bonnie's side. You are wise and strong, and Bonnie
could not be more blessed. I'm not sure what to do about visiting
Bonnie, as she does not know George or me well and might find our
presence unsettling. But I have a card I picked out for her recently,
so I'll send that, and keep sending cards as I find them.
And I'll think of her, and hold her in my heart, and be grateful for
the time I've known her, and send her love. I guess that's the best
anyone who's not close can do. Love is all we have.
That mail was sent on March 12, 2008, and the correspondence it
led to ended up with Victoria organizing a group of shape note
singers to go to Bonnie in the hospice and sing in her room for
over an hour. Unfortunately this didn't happen until early May,
which was about two weeks before she died. A week or two earlier
she would have been able to show more signs of appreciation.
After that, there was a correspondence about what kind of
support she could give me with all the work I would have to do
about arranging the funeral. She was so sympathetic I complained
about all the phone calls that were involved, and she offered to
just do some for me. This is what I told her I appreciated most
when I saw her after she got sick, and what I told George I
remembered most fondly about her at the Memorial Service
yesterday. Everybody who wants to be sympathetic says, "Let me
know if there's anything I can do," but Victoria did enough
sympathetic listening to actually come up with a good plan for
something she could do that was helpful. Here's how some of that
email went:
Victoria: Peace and strength to you,
Laura Thanks. So far, the strength has mainly been
necessary for yelling at Pioneer Investments customer support people, who don't seem to know
anything about what they're supposed to do with a Power of Attorney,
and they change their story if you yell at them hard enough. But I
will need strength to deal with undertakers, funerals, and real estate
agents in the future.
Victoria: I will be happy to do anything to help you deal with "undertakers,
funerals and real estate agents" when the time comes. Because I will
not have been subjected to the constant stress you've been handling it
might be a bit easier for me to take one some of that stuff. It's up
to you; just remember that if you ask me, I'll say yes. The one thing
you need to bear in mind is that I don't drive, so anything that
requires getting someplace by car can become a problem. But a lot of
what you mention can be done via phone.
I had a close friend of Bonnie's who was a member of the church
Bonnie wanted her funeral at helping me with those arrangements,
and undertakers turn out to be pretty good at not making
unreasonable demands on the recently bereaved. But Victoria did a
lot of research for me into how to go about donating Bonnie's car
to WGBH, she ordered the floral arrangement for the funeral, and
found a name of a real estate agent.
I was glad to hear the remembrances of people who'd known her
in other contexts at the funeral. I'm sorry I didn't get to hear
her Cemetery Tours of the Wyoming Cemetery in Malden where her
ashes are buried, or know more about the writing group she was a
founding member of. The biggest laugh of the afternoon (no, big
laughs aren't what most people who give remembrances at Memorial
Services go for) was from someone she'd worked with at the
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. He said, "I was
Victoria's boss — what a silly idea." I was sitting where I
could see George, and he was laughing even harder than a lot of
other people.
People complained when I arranged Bonnie's funeral that there
were seven hymns. They hadn't been to a Sacred Harp Memorial Lesson,
which is what Victoria had. From the Interment of Ashes at 11:30 AM
until 4 PM, we were singing at least half the time, and we must
have sung 40 or so hymns. I headed this posting "RIP", but the
Sacred Harp, "And I'll sing 'Hallelujah', when I arrive at home,"
with which we ended the service,
seems more appropriate to how I imagine Victoria arriving in Heaven.
Author Laura ConradPosted on February 21, 2010 Categories /wgTags 59'th year, Bonnie, death, music1 Comment on Victoria Bolles, RIP
Sunny eats Pine Needles
My recorder teacher likes decorating his house for Christmas, and has been out of town for a large fraction of the time since then, so the pine garland he wound around his bannister is still there, or was until last night.
While I was putting on my coat to go home, Sunny suddenly started eating it.
I don't know whether he was worried about the fire hazard to Uncle John's house, or whether he decided it was the right way to put more fiber into his diet.
The video I took was with my phone in a poorly-lit hallway, so it isn't going to win any awards for cinematography, but here it is anyway.
Author Laura ConradPosted on February 20, 2010 Categories UncategorizedTags 59'th year, petsLeave a comment on Sunny eats Pine Needles
Reading PDF files on a portable device
This is a holy grail for people who want to carry their libraries in their pockets and read without glasses or special lighting. The problem is that a lot of the people who distribute ebooks seem to think that using a page-description language like PDF is a suitable distribution method. But actually reading something formatted for an 8″x6″ page on a 2″x3.5″ screen is difficult.
I have it figured out. I'm not sure if this is something that's changed recently in the software, or if it was always like this and I was too stupid to figure it out.
I've asked on several mailing lists, and they seem to have been too stupid to figure it out, too. The best suggestion was from Peter
Flynn who posted a LaTeX file that resizes the PDF's pages to be the size of your device, and trims the margins. But on my Nokia N810, I need reading glasses to read the resulting page. You can make a case that I should get better reading glasses, but I don't think I'd enjoy even good ones.
My new method is as follows:
Run:
pdftohtml -stdout pdf-filename > html-filename
open the html-filename in emacs.
There are two major problems you want to fix here:
Every line in the original ends with a break. The original line-length of the paper book is unlikely to be useful on your portable device, so what you need, and what I've always before failed to fine, is a way to distinguish the breaks that are actually new paragraphs from the ones that are just line breaks. For the PDF files I've looked at since yesterday, the ones that are just linebreaks end in
, and the ones that are new paragraphs end in
. So what I'm doing these days is replacing the
 with just a space. I may decide at some point to replace the
's with
's, but so far what I'm doing now looks pretty good.
There is junk like page numbers between the pages. This varies by book, but for the book I'm reading at the moment, there was a file url at the bottom of every page and an anchor tag of a line like "dummy 2" at the top of every page. It would be real programming to write something that would continue a paragraph across a page break like this, so I'm putting up with new pages translating to new paragraphs even when they obviously shouldn't. But I'm using emacs to remove anything that writes some distracting non-text. In this case, that's removing the file url and the "dummy 2" text. Be careful about the file url — it might not be on a line by itself.
If you're using FBReader on a device with a sizeable memory card, you're done. Just put this html file on your device.
Otherwise, do whatever you normally do to sizeable html files (zipping is probably a good idea) and put that on your device.
Author Laura ConradPosted on February 19, 2010 Categories UncategorizedTags 59'th year, books, programming, PublishingLeave a comment on Reading PDF files on a portable device
Marty Sasaki, RIP
Marty from post to his high school facebook page
Marty's death apparently happened about six months ago.
He stopped posting to his blog
on August 13. His recorder teacher, who told me about it, had
seen him at her student recital (which may have been the one on
September 12) two days before he died.
Marty from fellow photographer's tripod page
We shared a cubicle in 1981-2, when we were both programmers in
the Radiology Department of the Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Although it was at that point one of the better jobs I've ever had
in my life, we both found some of the political aspects of it
frustrating. We would occasionally both get into his car and go
to a hill in Brookline and fly kites.
One of Marty's kites
He was at that point not long out of MIT, and in much better
touch with the cutting edge of programming than I was, so I
learned a lot from him. He was the first person I ever saw using
emacs, and it was his copy of The TEXbook that
introduced me to Donald Knuth and TEX.
When he left that job for another job in the Harvard Medical
Area, he was the first person I ever kept in touch with by email
and a "talk" program that ran on the Vax.
We eventually fell out of touch, but then when I was just
starting to be the Administrator of the Boston Recorder
Society, I got an email from him (in my capacity as
administrator; we'd neither of us particularly identified as
recorder players when we knew each other). He was thinking about
picking up the recorder again, and wondered if what the BRS was
doing would help. He must have decided that it wouldn't, because
I don't think he ever came to one of our meetings, but he did get
involved in other recorder-related activities in the Boston area,
and I occasionally saw him there.
The most recent real conversation we had was when he came as
part of the group that spelled the Cantabile Band at the Walk for
Hunger last year. He was looking quite a bit thinner than when
I'd most recently seen him, and seeming more mobile. We talked
about how much more energy blogging takes than you would expect,
and about the process of winding up the affairs of a dead person.
He was talking to me instead of playing because he'd gotten
frustrated by the playing — most of the other players in the
group were a lot more experienced than he was. But I had a bit
the same sense of returning peace that I remembered from flying
kites on the hill in Brookline.
He will be remembered at a recital on Saturday.
I won't be able to go, because there's a memorial service for
another friend at the same time. Having conflicting memorial
services makes me feel old, but that's another post.
Author Laura ConradPosted on February 18, 2010 Categories UncategorizedTags 59'th year, death, music, performing, programming, toys1 Comment on Marty Sasaki, RIP
Another Chopin Concert
Judith Conrad, Fortepiano
with the Delight Consort
Sunday, March 7, 2010, 3:00
The Loring Greenough House
Celebrating Fryderyk Chopin's 200th Birthday
with parlor music by himself and his forbears
Frederic Chopin, whose 200th birthday is March 1st, 2010, played a
square piano in his youth in Poland, and continued to perform on them
in salons and even in concert halls into the 1840's. And much of his
music was written to be played in parlors which often were equipped
with pianos much like the Loring-Greenough House fortepiano. Judith
Conrad will play a program of the sort that would have been played in
such a parlor on March 7 at 3:00pm, focusing on the smaller-scale
music of Chopin and including music for cello, flute, recorder and
fluegelhorn with Otto Guzman, Frank Fitzpatrick and Paul
Ukleja. Composers in addition to Chopin include Handel, Beethoven,
Marya Szymanowska, Prince Michal Cleofas Oginski and Princess Anna
Maria of Dresden.
The Loring-Greenough House, built in 1760, is located at 12 South
Street (at the Civil War Monument) in Jamaica Plain, MA. It is
wheelchair accessible. For more information on the Loring-Greenough
House, see www.loring-greenough.org.
Tickets are available at the door:
donation $17 ($12 seniors, students and JPTC members) which includes a
"preservation fee". For further information call Judy Conrad at
508-674-6128 or e-mail judithconrad@mindspring.com.
Oginski Polonaise 'Les Adieu a la Patrie'
Maria Szymanowska Piano Fantaisie
Polonaise Chopin wrote for his first piano teacher when he was 11
Chopin Mazurkas
Etude opus 10 no. 2, Cello and piano
Chopin Songs: Smutna Rzeka; Dumka
Song – Maiden's Fancy, played by ensemble
Handel Polonaise
Three Dances from the Polish Renaissance
Beethoven Variations on Hail the Conquering Hero – Piano and cello.
Piano music from the Archives in Dresden, Polonaises and Sonatinas by
and for Princess Anna Amalia c. 1770
Bellini Costa Diva – Paul on Fluegelhornby
Chopin Waltzes, nocturnesby
Martini Plaisir D'Amour – Sung by the audience
Author Laura ConradPosted on February 17, 2010 Categories UncategorizedTags 59'th year, music, performing1 Comment on Another Chopin Concert
The Spare Room
book is about aspects of taking care of a dying person
that I mostly didn't do with Bonnie.
The main character (Helen) lives near Melbourne, and has a
close friend (Nicola)
with cancer
who lives in Sidney but has found a "clinic" in Melbourne that she
believes will cure her cancer. So she moves in with Helen for the
three weeks the treatment will take.
During those three weeks, Helen has to do a lot of physical
nursing, deal with Nicola's denying that she is dying, and deal
with Nicola's refusal to realize that this clinic treatment
she's getting isn't going to do any good and she has to go to
real doctors for real treatments.
The writing is good, and the discussion of the issues of how to
deal with a dying person is perceptive. But in the most amazing
paragraph, Helen describes how Nicola organizes her own home care after
Helen finally convinces her that she can't do it all:
I didn't know yet how many times I would fly to Sydney to
play my small part in the remains of her care, or how often,
when I buzzed at Iris's apartment, the door would be opened by
Harriet from Yass, her round, weather-beaten face sweating and
wild with fatigue, or by Marion the Buddhist, white, composed,
and stoic after a five-day stint without relief. I had not
prepared myself to sleep on the floor beside Clare from Byron,
when Iris, half out of her mind, pulled on a backpack and
fled north, on foot, along the coast of New South Wales.
I coule not imagine the urge to start drinking that would
seize me every time I entered the high, airy rooms of the
apartment and found Nicola enthroned on the sofa where, propped
against its hard padded arm, she woke and slept and laughed and
coughed, commanding the stewing of Chinese herbs, planning brown
rice fasts and drastic alkaline diets, turning her face up each
morning to the sun that streamed in through the uncovered
windows. Nor could I foresee that one day, with her swollen
legs resting on a stack of cushions, she would announce
brightly, "I've suddenly realized why I feel so terrible — I
must be anemic." Or how dull my life at home would seem between
my visits to Sydney, how I would write to her on a postcard: "I
miss you. I'm bored. I'd rather be scrubbing shit off Iris's
bathroom tiles." For this too would be required of me: like
otherw who served her, whom I came to love in the intimacy of
our labor. I would have to help carry her to the lavatory,
where I learned to wash her arse as gently as I had washed my
sister's and my mother's, and as someday someone will have to
wash mine.
I might have guessed that she would resist the hospice until
the contents of her lungs began to bubble up into her nose and
throat, until everyone around her was deranged with exhaustion,
fury, nad despair. She relented only when Marion said to her,
"Don't regret the things you haven't done. That's the past.
Let it go. Rejoice: you're our teacher now."
None of Bonnie's illness worked out much like that — Bonnie
went into the hospital as soon as it was clear that she couldn't
take care of herself, and by the time she might have been
denying what was happening, she'd had the stroke that left her
unable to talk. But I do recognize both the urge to drink and
the love and closeness with the other people caring for
Nicola.
This is a short book. At the beginning I wondered if the
one-column review
in the New York Times had told me everything I was
interested in knowing about this book. But it really does get
even more interesting at the end.
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Q: Open existing Android Studio project in Windows Bash I want to open an existing Android Studio project from Windows Terminal, bash is the shell.

I have tried paxas project_directory, and nothing happened. convertPathFormat() works properly, but not sure what's wrong.
Thanks in advance!

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The last season of Orange Is The New Black heralds the dawn of the 4th Streamapocalypse
Photo: JoJo Whilden (Netflix)
Here's what's happening in the world of television for Friday, July 26 and Saturday, July 27. All times are Eastern.
Prepare to have Regina Spektor stuck in your head and The Boys lollygagging around the house, for the dawning of the fourth Streamapocalpyse is nigh.
Orange Is The New Black (Netflix, Friday, 3:01 a.m., complete seventh season): You've got time (you've got tiiiiiiii-iiiiiii-iiiiime) for the final season of this groundbreaking series, right?
As that (really excellent) trailer helpfully reminds us, the status quo for the women of Litchfield has changed yet again. Piper (Taylor Schilling) is on the outside, as is Sophia (Laverne Cox); Taystee (Danielle Brooks) is dealing with the fallout from her conviction; and Suzanne (Uzo Aduba) wants ice cream. And justice.
OITNB has had its ups and downs, to be sure, but there's no denying that it changed the TV landscape, and had—and has—one of the finest ensemble casts out there. We're sorry to see it go, but optimistic about its end. Myles McNutt's recaps will run throughout the weekend.
The Boys (Amazon, Friday, 3:01 a.m., complete first season): Let's leave the women of Orange for a moment to contemplate The Boys in their profane glory.
Based on the comic of the same name by Preacher's Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, this series adaption—created by Timeless' Eric Kripke along with Evan Goldberg and Seth Roger (both of Preacher and lots of other things)—promises to be every bit as violent, foul-mouthed, and visceral as its sister series. In it, fame has corrupted the superheroes of the world, and it's up to the titular Boys (not all male) to stop them. If you like the idea of Karl Urban saying "fuck" a lot, this is for you. Keep an eye out for Liz Shannon Miller's pre-air review.
Regular coverage
Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC, Friday, 8 p.m.)
Share (HBO, Saturday, 10 p.m.): Based on an award-winning short film from Pippa Bianco, Share looks like some lighthearted Saturday night viewing.
Or not so lighthearted. Rhianne Barreto anchors the film, which also features Charlie Plummer and Poorna Jagannathan.