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Song E, Kunes S. Determinants of the Drosophila Odorant Receptor Pattern. Developmental Cell. 2012;22(2):363-376.
Dearborn, R.E. J, Dai Y, Reed B, Gray J, Kunes S. Reph, a Regulator of Eph Receptor Expression in the Drosophila melanogaster Optic Lobe. PloS . 2012;in press.
Huang H-R, Chen ZJ, Kunes S, Chang G-D, Maniatis T. Endocytic pathway is required for Drosophila Toll innate immune signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2010;107(18):8322-7.AbstractThe Toll signaling pathway is required for the innate immune response against fungi and Gram-positive bacteria in Drosophila. Here we show that the endosomal proteins Myopic (Mop) and Hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate (Hrs) are required for the activation of the Toll signaling pathway. This requirement is observed in cultured cells and in flies, and epistasis experiments show that the Mop protein functions upstream of the MyD88 adaptor and the Pelle kinase. Mop and Hrs, which are critical components of the ESCRT-0 endocytosis complex, colocalize with the Toll receptor in endosomes. We conclude that endocytosis is required for the activation of the Toll signaling pathway.
Murakami S, Dan C, Zagaeski B, Maeyama Y, Kunes S, Tabata T. Optimizing Drosophila olfactory learning with a semi-automated training device. Journal of neuroscience methods. 2010;188(2):195-204.AbstractDrosophila olfactory aversive conditioning has served as a powerful model system with which to elucidate the molecular and neuronal mechanisms underlying memory formation. In the typical protocol, flies are exposed to a constant odor stream while receiving a pulsed electric shock in the conditioning tube of a manual apparatus. We have devised a simple, low-cost semi-automated conditioning apparatus that computationally controls the delivery of odor and shock. A semiconductor-based odor sensor is employed to monitor the change of odor concentration in the training tube. The system thus allows electric shocks to be precisely matched with odor concentration in the training tube. We found that short-term memory performance was improved with a pulsed odor flow protocol, in which odor is presented in short pulses, each paired with electric shock, rather than as a constant flow. The effect of pulsed odor flow might be ascribed to the phenomenon of 'conditioned approach', where approach toward an odor is induced when the electric shock is presented before odor pulse ends. Our data shows that the system is applicable to the study of olfactory memory formation and to the examination of conditioning parameters at a level of detail not practical with a manual apparatus.
Tokhunts R, Singh S, Chu T, D'Angelo G, Baubet V, Goetz JA, Huang Z, Yuan Z, Ascano M, Zavros Y, et al. The full-length unprocessed hedgehog protein is an active signaling molecule. The Journal of biological chemistry. 2010;285(4):2562-8.AbstractThe hedgehog (HH) family of ligands plays an important instructional role in metazoan development. HH proteins are initially produced as approximately 45-kDa full-length proteins, which undergo an intramolecular cleavage to generate an amino-terminal product that subsequently becomes cholesterol-modified (HH-Np). It is well accepted that this cholesterol-modified amino-terminal cleavage product is responsible for all HH-dependent signaling events. Contrary to this model we show here that full-length forms of HH proteins are able to traffic to the plasma membrane and participate directly in cell-cell signaling, both in vitro and in vivo. We were also able to rescue a Drosophila eye-specific hh loss of function phenotype by expressing a full-length form of hh that cannot be processed into HH-Np. These results suggest that in some physiological contexts full-length HH proteins may participate directly in HH signaling and that this novel activity of full-length HH may be evolutionarily conserved.
de Bivort BL, Perlstein EO, Kunes S, Schreiber SL. Amino acid metabolic origin as an evolutionary influence on protein sequence in yeast. Journal of molecular evolution. 2009;68(5):490-7.AbstractThe metabolic cycle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae consists of alternating oxidative (respiration) and reductive (glycolysis) energy-yielding reactions. The intracellular concentrations of amino acid precursors generated by these reactions oscillate accordingly, attaining maximal concentration during the middle of their respective yeast metabolic cycle phases. Typically, the amino acids themselves are most abundant at the end of their precursor's phase. We show that this metabolic cycling has likely biased the amino acid composition of proteins across the S. cerevisiae genome. In particular, we observed that the metabolic source of amino acids is the single most important source of variation in the amino acid compositions of functionally related proteins and that this signal appears only in (facultative) organisms using both oxidative and reductive metabolism. Periodically expressed proteins are enriched for amino acids generated in the preceding phase of the metabolic cycle. Proteins expressed during the oxidative phase contain more glycolysis-derived amino acids, whereas proteins expressed during the reductive phase contain more respiration-derived amino acids. Rare amino acids (e.g., tryptophan) are greatly overrepresented or underrepresented, relative to the proteomic average, in periodically expressed proteins, whereas common amino acids vary by a few percent. Genome-wide, we infer that 20,000 to 60,000 residues have been modified by this previously unappreciated pressure. This trend is strongest in ancient proteins, suggesting that oscillating endogenous amino acid availability exerted genome-wide selective pressure on protein sequences across evolutionary time.


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Here is a look at the life of the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton.
Birth date: January 9, 1982
Birth place: Reading, Berkshire, England
Birth name: Catherine Elizabeth Middleton
Father: Michael Middleton, former airline pilot now mail-order business owner
Mother: Carole (Goldsmith) Middleton, former flight attendant
Marriage: Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge (April 29, 2011-present)
Children: George Alexander Louis, July 22, 2013
Education: University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, 2005, MA, Art History
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A commoner, she is the eldest of three children of self-made millionaires.
Her engagement ring belonged to Princess Diana.
2001 - Meets Prince William at University of St. Andrews.
2002-2005 - Shares living quarters with William and several other college students.
2003 - Begins dating Prince William around Christmas.
April 1, 2004 - First public sighting of the couple, a ski trip in Switzerland, is reported.
2006-2007 - Works as an accessories buyer for British female fashion chain store Jigsaw.
March 2007 - Ends relationship with Prince William, but within months they are on again.
October 2010 - Becomes engaged to Prince William during a trip to Kenya.
November 16, 2010 - Prince Charles officially announces the engagement to the world.
November 23, 2010 - Wedding date and place is announced, April 29, 2011 at Westminster Abbey.
April 29, 2011 - Marries Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey. Becomes Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.
May 2011 - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge set up housekeeping on a rented farm in Anglesey, Wales.
June 2011 - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge make an apartment on the grounds of Kensington Palace their London home.
June 30-July 8, 2011 - The couples' first official trip to a foreign country, Canada.
July 8-10, 2011 - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are in Los Angeles, California for a three-day visit where they visit Hollywood, Skid Row and veterans. It is the Duchess's first trip to the United States.
July 22, 2011 - Wedding dress is put on display at Buckingham Palace.
January 5, 2012 - Announces the four charities she will support as a patron: the Art Room, which helps disadvantaged children express themselves through art; the National Portrait Gallery, which houses a famous collection of royal paintings and photographs; East Anglia's Children's Hospices, which helps children with life threatening conditions; and Action on Addiction, which assists those with addiction issues.
March 19, 2012 - Gives her first official public address at East Anglia's Children's Hospice facility in Ipswich, England.
September 2012 - French magazine Closer runs photographs of the Duchess privately sunbathing topless. The pictures also run in the Irish Daily Star newspaper. Prince William and the Duchess are to file a criminal complaint with French authorities accusing the photographer of invasion of privacy.
September 17, 2012 - The Duchess and Prince William file a criminal complaint in France against the photographer that took pictures of the Duchess privately sunbathing topless. They are seeking damages and would like to prevent further publication of the photos. The French magazine Closer, the Irish Daily Star and Italian magazine Chi have each published some of the topless photos.
December 3, 2012 - The royal household announces that Duchess Catherine is pregnant. According to the announcement, she is admitted to hospital with acute morning sickness.
July 22, 2013 - Catherine gives birth to the couple's first child, a son weighing 8 lbs, 6 oz. The baby is named Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge.

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D-backs aim for South Beach sweep
Nolasco faces Miley as Marlins look to snap seven-game skid
Losers of seven straight and 10 of their past 11, the Marlins have led in a game just once since May 10, when they scored in the first inning on Thursday against the Reds only to fall in extra innings.
Averaging just 1.5 runs per game since May 6, Miami will try to avoid being swept for the third time over its past four series Sunday when the club hosts the red-hot D-backs.
Not expected to compete this season, the Marlins have been bit hard by the injury bug over the first couple months with players like Giancarlo Stanton and Logan Morrison sidelined. The club hopes, however, the time given to the replacements will eventually pay off down the road.
"We know that we've got guys coming, and believe me, the guys know that too. Like I said, there's a lot at stake for them," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "Obviously, guys understand positions of where guys are going to be coming off the DL and the situation there. So, there's a lot at stake for those guys to go out there and show what they can do and produce. But at the same time, too, the competition is good. Usually when you have competition, it makes your team better. And that's what we're hoping for."
On the mound for Miami on Sunday will be Ricky Nolasco, who is 0-3 in May. After taking a hard-luck loss on May 8 in San Diego when he only allowed one run in seven innings, the right-hander was pounded by the Dodgers his last time out, giving up six runs in five frames.
Opposing Nolasco for the D-backs, who have won four straight, will be left-hander Wade Miley. For just the second time in his career, Miley allowed seven runs in a start, losing to the Braves in a five-inning outing on Monday. Walks have been a problem this season for Miley, who has issued 19 free passes in 48 innings.
"You don't want to walk people, period. It's uncharacteristic of him," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "We'll have to work with him and clean it up."
Marlins: Club sending first-base trio to Jupiter
The Marlins are expecting Morrison to begin his rehab assignment with Class A Jupiter on Monday. A day or two later, Casey Kotchman and Joe Mahoney are projected to join him there.
Morrison, who opened the season on the 60-day disabled list, has been playing in extended spring training games. The left-handed-hitting first baseman is recovering from right knee surgery.
"LoMo, they're planning on him going out in rehab on Monday," Redmond said. "We'll see how that goes."
Kotchman strained his right hamstring in the second game of the season, and on May 8 he was transferred to the 60-day DL. Mahoney went on the 15-day disabled list on April 30 with a strained right hamstring.
By rule, position players can spend a maximum of 20 days on rehab assignment.
Morrison is eligible to be reinstated on May 30, but June 1 is a more realistic date.
D-backs: Multiple players on the mend
Outfielder Adam Eaton (elbow) is getting closer to returning after he played in the outfield Friday night for the first time on his rehab stint. He could be back by the end of the month.
Right-hander Daniel Hudson faced opposing hitters for the first time Friday and it appears he may be able to return from Tommy John surgery sooner than the original target date of the All-Star break.
Shortstop Willie Bloomquist (intercostal) could also be back by the end of the month, as he is getting ready to join a Minor League affiliate for a rehab stint.
There's no set timetable yet for second baseman Aaron Hill, whose broken left hand is healing slower than hoped, and closer J.J. Putz, who is dealing with a strained right elbow.
Worth noting
• According to Stats Inc., 40 players have appeared with both the Marlins and D-backs. Heath Bell and Cody Ross are with Arizona currently after spending time in Miami.
• Gerardo Parra hit his third career leadoff home run Saturday against the Marlins. All three game-opening long balls have come this season.
• Ryan Webb pitched a scoreless inning in relief on Saturday for the Marlins, extending his streak of scoreless innings to a career-best 16 1/3.
Tyler Emerick is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Slugger leads way with four hits; knuckleballer keeps Miami in check
MIAMI -- In as many ways as possible, the Mets stressed that Friday's loss to the Marlins was a blip. An aberration. The Mets had won their previous five games, they said Friday night, and possessed more than enough firepower to continue winning.
To back up that line of thinking was an entirely different challenge. But David Wright and the Mets set about doing so in quick order Saturday, rapping out 16 hits in a 9-3 victory over the Marlins. It was their sixth win in seven games, and their first in six days that did not require a late comeback.
Wright made sure of that much, singling in his team's first run in the first inning and adding a solo homer in the third. Wright finished 4-for-6 with a fine defensive play to rob Austin Kearns of a hit in the seventh inning, upping his season average to .402 -- and leading manager Terry Collins to gush afterward that "he's a star."
No Mets player has hit over .400 this late in a season since Cleon Jones in 1969. Asked if he can maintain this pace through September, Wright said simply: "No. I'll be honest with you. No."
But it was hardly a one-man band rocking Marlins Park on Saturday afternoon. The Mets tacked on a third run on Kirk Nieuwenhuis' two-out single in the fourth inning, after Brett Hayes was called for catcher's interference during Andres Torres' at-bat. Then they effectively put the game away against starter Ricky Nolasco in the fifth, when Torres singled home two more runs.
"We're playing real well," Wright said, deflecting talk of his individual achievements. "It makes my job a lot easier when the guys in front of me are getting on and the guys behind me are swinging the bats the way they are."
Nolasco had plunked Mets starter R.A. Dickey on the right arm moments prior to Torres' hit, forcing in a run with the bases loaded and leaving an imprint of the baseball's stitching on the inside of Dickey's wrist. Though the injury bothered him -- and seemed to affect him -- for the rest of the game, Dickey pitched for two more innings and did not expect to receive an X-ray.
From the start, the knuckleballer was admittedly not sharp, allowing a season-high nine hits in six innings. But he also stranded six of those runners to move to 5-1; Dickey did not record his fifth win last season until July 25.
"It was a real fight today," Dickey said. "I threw a lot of tumbleweeds up there, balls that were just kind of rotating on me. I didn't have my swing-and-miss knuckleball tonight, but they were hitting enough pieces of it to give me some ground balls in a couple of bigger situations. I was able to make a good pitch occasionally when I needed it."
Though the Marlins mustered a few token rallies in the later innings, they never seriously threatened to come back against the Mets for a second consecutive game. Of all their players, only Jose Reyes gave the Mets fits, finishing 4-for-5 and scoring one of Miami's three runs.
But Wright one-upped him with his own four-hit performance, which included a home run, two runs scored and three RBIs. The third baseman is now 12-for-22 dating back to May 7, leading the Major Leagues in batting average and on-base percentage. And he has done it playing through a fractured right pinkie finger, which is still not completely healed.
"He's on fire," Reyes said. "When he hits, he's one of the best players in the league. I spent a lot of time with David. He's an unbelievable hitter. He can play."
Though Wright has no designs on keeping up this .400 pace for the rest of the year -- and though he still strikes out a bit too much for that to be a realistic proposition -- he does have a chance at some other accolades. Though it is only mid-May, Wright has proven that he could contend for the second batting title in franchise history -- Reyes won the Mets' first one last year. And he could make a run at John Olerud's franchise-record .354 average in 1998.
"At the end of the year, David Wright's going to have some stinkin' really good numbers," Collins said. "He's got me convinced."
Of course, individual accomplishments only mean so much in the context of team deficiency. Just ask Reyes. So Wright is thrilled that his own successes have coincided with those of the Mets, who have now won six of seven in rather persuasive fashion.
"It's fun to come to the ballpark every day," Wright said. "At some point, I think that teams are going to realize the kind of talent that we have."
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The human mind is like a sponge, particularly when we are young. It is predisposed to soak up knowledge and master skills.
We have learned a lot about different learning styles, and we understand much more about how to engage young people in learning in the last few decades, but it's hard to execute in large schools, where teachers may be dealing with as many as 150 students a day.
I've gotten angry emails from teachers who perceive my great appreciation for what Animas High School, a public charter school, is accomplishing with its students through project-based learning, as a slam against teachers and schools in the various districts. Having taught briefly at Durango High School, I have the greatest respect for what happens every day in our schools.
But I know firsthand how impossible it is to give every student the attention he or she needs and deserves. Or how much work it is to create lessons that challenge students who are racing ahead of the class while bringing along others who still need to learn the lesson. And how to take a textbook, which more often than not is pretty boring, and try to find a way to inspire students not only to learn the information, but to love doing it.
What is happening at AHS illustrates how we, as a society, can create different methods of teaching that allow students to find the way that works for them, to create people who are not only lifelong learners – a critical ability in our rapidly changing world – but passionate, curious, committed lifelong learners. It's definitely an instance where smaller is better. I'm curious to see if the Small Learning Communities at Durango High School will achieve the same kinds of results.
On Wednesday, AHS held its annual "Friendraiser," a combination exhibition of students' work and a chance to raise money for the operating expenses of the school. The big challenge a charter school faces is paying rent for its facilities, while school districts own their buildings and pay for improvements via bond issues.
So charter schools either take it from their per pupil revenue, meaning fewer dollars to put in the classroom, not an option for a rigorous college preparatory school, or raise the money, about $125,000 a year for AHS. The evening raised almost half of that, $61,000 in donations and pledges, thanks in large part to three generous donors who gave a $20,000 matching grant.
Enough about the business, let's get to the inspirational part of the story.
I lucked out and really had a chance to have a conversation with Lori Fisher, the 10th-grade humanities teacher. The sophomores are split into two groups of 30 students each, and she gets each group for two hours a day. That concentrated time alone makes a difference, but Fisher has learned a lot about working with students in this different kind of educational experience.
"I have to give them time, because sometimes some of their best work happens when it looks like they're doing nothing," she said. "I have to have faith in the process."
The students spend quite a bit of time on poetry, studying everything from sonnets to beat poetry, before writing their own. Last year, Lacey Meek's video poem won a national award, and Fisher's students have produced two poetry books, Speak Truth to Power and Weapons of the Wise, which are available on www.lulu.com. The big difference is that it's not a race to cram in the material, and students spend three weeks just writing and revising their poems.
Revising and editing are critical for good writing, and incredibly time-consuming for teachers.
"Every year, there's a poem that makes me cry," Fisher said, "and every year, there's a project that makes my jaw drop. And there's a power in the words for teenagers, who want to express things so badly, a power that can be so illuminating."
I talked science project with Aiyana Anderson, 17, the daughter of Mitch Anderson and Cindy Pitz. She worked with Tara Murphy and Marlene Jensen in conjunction with their chemistry class and in collaboration with the Mountain Studies Institute to investigate different amounts of biochar in mine tailings. Biochar is a form of charcoal and is very porous, holding water and taking metal out of solution, so it helps plants take root in the otherwise inhospitable tailings and clean the water running off. Some of the results were counterintuitive – you would think the more biochar the better, but as the song says, "It ain't necessarily so."
Emily Wieser, 15, the daughter of Ross Wieser and Sharon Scott, looked at ways of evaluating whether nature can take care of its own restoration after a megafire, the kind we've been seeing with increasing frequency in the West during the last decade, or whether it should be reseeded with native plants in the various biospheres and grass to keep the seed in and minimize erosion.
Andy Lloyd, 15, the son of Leo and Susie Lloyd, brought his Rube Goldberg machine project from a year ago. A Rube Goldberg machine uses a complicated process to do a simple task.
Andy and his friend Gordon Gianniny, the son of Fort Lewis College professors Gary Gianniny and Cynthia Dott, decided to make waffles, and it took them 26 steps, running into challenges such as having the batter holder pour long enough to fill the waffle iron and finding a way to slowly lower the iron's lid so it didn't splash batter all over the kitchen. The point, Andy said, is that he did the project a year ago and still remembers the lessons he learned.
Lyle Bryson, 15, the son of Phil and Lucy Bryson, and Corinne Truax, 13, the daughter of Bill and Maureen Truax, both brought their mask projects – the first task of incoming freshmen that takes them on a journey of self-discovery. Both learned to be truer to their own voices and resist peer pressure.
Oh, and did I mention Shannon Etz, 16, the daughter of Ron and Linda Etz, who turned her geometry concept of interlocking two-dimensional items together to create a three-dimensional object into a cool modernistic bedside table? Or the cookbook her biology class created for people undergoing cancer treatment using ingredients with angiogenic properties to limit cancer cell growth?
Called A Bite to Fight, it's also for sale on lulu.com, and proceeds will go to help Teddy Rodd and his family as Teddy goes into his second round of fighting cancer.
I talked to more students, all of whom blew me away, but my brainpower and my space are both hitting their limits.
To learn more and support the school and its mission, visit www.animashighschool.com. You will leave feeling as jealous as I do.
Enjoying short days and long nights for their birthdays are Will Siegrist, Carol Grenoble, Ann Casler, Sharon Harris, Maggie Scott, Judy Hook, Harry Goff, Jessica Hill, Daniel Latham, Sierra Lillard, Patrick McBrayer, Dale Warren, McKenzie Rion, Stacey Webb, Ivey Hermesman, Branden Marquez, Stacy Waterman, Sherry Wilmoth, Audrey Stockton, Sarah Von Tersch, Margie Winkelbauer, Marti Kiely, Bill Bishop and William Berger.
Reg and Bev Graham are cuddling in front of a roaring fire for their anniversary.
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ART ZOYD 3: Japanese facsimilie edition with 3 extra tracks
Art Zoyd was one of the 7 original RIO groups and this is the classic 1976 LP of the early quartet version: guitar, trumpet, viola, bass and percussion, and marks the first appearance of this remarkable group with its radically unfamiliar sound, and distinctive musical language. Intense and explosive, Art Zoyd could be terrifying, eerie, neurotic, dreamy, suspenseful, driving or rather academically musical - changing from one mood or idea to another from bar to bar. Their instrumentation (for the most part without drums) gave them immense flexibility, and no loss in power. This is the first reissue on CD of this early classic - re-mastered from vinyl (because the original masters were lost; it was re-recorded in 1980, with an expanded line-up - see 'Symponie below). There are 3 extra tracks of essentially historical interest on which a different line-up plays some fairly straightforward and highly uncharacteristic, rock songs. Sorry about the price but it's a Japanese limited art edition..
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Please go to Windyhill rates page to see availability and rates for the weeks. We will reply to all enquiries within 24 hours. In 2007 we fitted a new kitchen and refurbished the lounge in the holiday home. In 2008 we added an ensuite and also new bathroom with a whirlpool bath.
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The type of surgery used will depend on the stage of the cancer. Surgical procedures may be done to:
- Treat precancerous lesions
- Treat cervical cancer
Treating Precancerous Lesions
Determining the treatment for precancerous lesions depends on various factors, including:
- Whether the lesion is low or high grade
- Whether you want to have children in the future
- Your age and general health
- The preference of you and your doctor
A low-grade lesion may not need further treatment if the affected area was removed during biopsy. But you will still need to have regular pelvic exams and Pap tests. When a precancerous lesion requires treatment, you may have the following options:
This procedure removes abnormal cell growth by freezing the abnormal cells. It can be done in a doctor's office. A speculum will be inserted into your vagina. A nitrogen or carbon dioxide liquid is applied to a probe, which freezes the area. The procedure usually takes about 15 minutes.
Afterwards, you may have cramping and some bleeding, which may last several days. Later, you will have a watery discharge as the frozen area thaws and sheds the dead cells.
This procedure removes abnormal cell growth with a hot instrument, an electrical current, or a caustic substance. It can be done in the doctor's office. A speculum will be inserted into your vagina. The instrument or substance that burns off the abnormal cell area will be applied. This procedure usually takes about 15 minutes.
Afterwards, you may have cramping and some bleeding, which may last several days.
This procedure removes abnormal cell growth with an intense, narrow beam of light which heats and kills the abnormal cells. It can be done in the doctor's office. A speculum will be inserted into your vagina. The laser will be used to remove the abnormal cell area. This procedure usually takes about 30 minutes.
Afterwards, you may have cramping and some bleeding, which may last several days.
For all the procedures listed above, you should refrain from sex, douching, and tampons for several weeks after the procedure.
You should contact your doctor if you experience the following symptoms:
- Heavy, clotted bleeding
- Fever or chills
- Intense pain
Treating Cervical Cancer
If the cancer is only on the surface of the cervix, an attempt to destroy the cancerous cells may be done using one of the methods listed above for treating precancerous lesions. If the tumor has spread into deeper layers of the cervix, but has not spread beyond the cervix, surgery may be done to remove the tumor but leave the uterus and ovaries. In other cases, you may need to have a hysterectomy.
A hysterectomy is surgical removal of the uterus, including the cervix. Sometimes the fallopian tubes and ovaries are removed as well. The doctor may choose to remove lymph nodes near the uterus to determine whether the cancer has spread.
There are three different methods:
Abdominal hysterectomy: A cut is made in the lower abdomen to expose the tissues and blood vessels that surround the uterus and cervix. These tissues are cut and the blood vessels are tied off to remove the uterus. Stitches are placed in these deep structures, which will eventually dissolve and do not need to be removed. The uterus is removed from the top of the vagina and the vagina is closed to prevent infection and to keep the intestines from dropping downward.
Vaginal hysterectomy: The vagina is stretched and kept open by special instruments; no external incision is made. The doctor does, however, make an internal incision at the top of the vagina around the cervix. The uterus and cervix are cut free from their supporting ligaments and surrounding tissue, and connecting blood vessels are tied off. The uterus and cervix are removed through the vagina, which is then closed to prevent infection and to keep the intestines from dropping downward.
Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH): A laparoscope is inserted through a small cut near the navel. This small, telescope-like device, about the width of a pencil, with a light on one end and a magnifying lens on the other, helps the doctor see the pelvic organs. The abdomen is inflated with carbon dioxide to improve your doctor's visibility and provide room to work. Images from the laparoscope are viewed on a special monitor.
Other small 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide incisions are made in the abdomen, through instruments are inserted to help move organs and remove the uterus. An incision is also made where the uterus joins the vagina. The bladder and rectum are gently pushed off the uterus, which is removed through the cut made in the vagina. The vagina is closed to prevent infection and to keep the intestines from dropping downward. The cuts are all closed with stitches, which will likely leave small scars.
With each procedure, a vaginal packing dressing is placed in the vagina. This will be removed after a day or two.
Vaginal hysterectomy and laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) can be done if the stage of the cancer is very low. Abdominal hysterectomy permits careful removal of more tissue. This procedure is used when the stage is relatively higher.
In addition to standard surgical techniques, your physician may choose to do surgery with the assistance of a robotic device. The surgical procedures are the same as standard surgery, but the robotic device can give greater skill and limit the size and type of incision necessary to perform the procedure, reducing complications and decreasing recovery time. Not every patient is suited for robotic surgery. Ask your physician if this option is available in your area and whether you are a candidate.
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My first guess would be worn brushes, but I don't know that gen. The guys at otherpower.com probably know, see their discussion board.
If it's a brush type unit then start with the brushes. Otherwise it's hard to say.
First you have to keep in mind that both brush and brushless generators work like an alternator on a car. You have to send power to it in order to get power out. This means that it can also be from a bad 12 volt battery.
Brushless units have just enough of a perminant magnet to create a 12 volt source and then they use that 12 volts to send pulses to the other windings to charge the core. The core itself has windings, a diode bridge and a capacator. Once the capacator charges it works just like a brush type.
general info on generatorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_generatorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternator
Ok,electrician to the rescue here.From what you have told me and the star,pentagon diagram you describe,what you have is a 3 phase generator set.First thing I would do is take your meter and see if you get 120 volts from each hot line to the case of the generator.You have 3 hot lines.Next thing I'd check is the neutral connection.(the white or natural gray wire) If thats loose either in the generator or at the house connection that'll cause your voltage to go haywire.Most 3 phase generators are of the revolving field type which means the exictation current is delivered to the rotor of the generator.It is a rotating electromagnet which induces your main electrical current in the stator of the generator.There are 2 slip rings delivering 'charging dc' to the rotor.All 'brushless' generators have these brushes,lol.If these brushes are worn that'll also cause the voltage to go low.And lastly make sure your load is balanced between all three phases .Loading down two phase legs will drop your voltage.If it is not any of these then it may be a loose connection to the windings of the stator(the fixed coils in the generator)ake a resistance check between any two out of three phases with the generator off.The reading should be around 3 to 12 ohms between hot legs,if you get nothing then there's an open wire in the windings somewhere,that means rewinding.If the resistance is too high then your windings are burning,look at the stator coils and see if they;re black,burned looking at all,then the generators' toast.Hope this all helps jd,lemmee know how you make out.
Davisonh, boy am I glad to see you! But, in the meantime, I have gone hogwild! Perhaps a bit too far. Imagine a steel framed box, 4 x4 x 2 feet. It is framed by 2"angle steel and clad in heavy sheet metal. Inside is a genset unit comprised of a 34 hp diesel Isuzu and a Fidelity 'back end' (what do you call the back end? Alternator?). The !*&%$ frame makes it almost impossible to get at some things and, of course, the rear mounted 30 gallon fuel cannister is mounted against the side that allows access to the control box. I, naturally added to the structural complexity by adding a 100 gallon fuel tank with its support legs also in the way. The unit is built by Klinge and they have website. The unit looks like their modern 15 kw 'betwen-the-rails' model. Not quite - but close.
So, yesterday, I went at it and removed the 100 gallon tank, the cannister tank and other access problems. But the unit still weighs 2500 pounds and so I jacked it up, put pipes underneath for 'rollers' and moved the assembly into the middle of the genset room to afford access. Getting into the black box (at the back of the back end) was difficult. It simply would not come off because of the steel frame is in the way. Out came the mini grinder with a razor cut and I 'cut' the top off the box and the then the back side would come away. I covered the box guts with cloth to prevent metal shavings getting in. I now have pics of the beast's butt. It's like looking at the wrong end of a baboon.
Back to the problem........my voltage meter reads 180 volts at 60 hz. But my Outback inverter rejects the power as 'too low voltage'. And, since I am only sending 120v to the inverter, the problem is likely with the 120 circuit. I get 120 by centre-tapping between L1 and L2. My problem? For starters my Multimeter (which I don't know how to read properly) is broken. Secondly, because the 240 volt meter was reading 180, I went to the heart of the beast. Maybe I should have simply done something else. But I did check all my wiring to the point of the black box and everything seemed OK.....................anyway, I went the whole nine yards. I can now see the Fidelity back end but all the tanks and things are in a heap. I doubt that I could run the machine for more than a minute (I took all the fuel out of the tanks).
So, first question - want me to send you pics of the back end? I am at email@example.com. Second question - was there something I could have checked without disassembling this monster? Thirdly (it is a monster) what would it cost (roughly) to rebuild the back end ata windings shop? I suspect that it needs it. Mind you, there are two halves to the backend. There are the main windings in the big round housing and then there is the control box at the very back. By the way, I cannot find an AVR. I have more questions but that will help.
And thanks for showing up!!!!!
Yes jd,I think that'd be a good idea.I'm >email@example.com">. Um,I hate to see you going thru all that work,but basically all you need to do is get the endbell off the generator end.Usually four bolts holding the bell end on.Can't tell till I see your pics,then I'd be able to give you a better idea of what to do.You'll be able to tell whats wrong pretty much right off the bat once the bell ends' off.If theres a burned out winding you'll see it right off,it'll be a blackened coil(or more than one blackened coil)and most likely you'll smell it too.Smells like burnt plastic or varnishy kind of smell.I call it bakelite burn smell,can't miss it.Now question I have,is there a coupling of some sort between the engine and the generator? Sometimes the crankshaft and the generator shaft are one and the same,if it is you have to send the whooole thing out to be fixed though I have taken the stator as a unit off and left the rotor hanging on 2 x 4 blocks.Ya the inverters doing its job,telling you it's supply voltage is too low.You say this is a 3 phase generator,if it is L2 will be a live line not a grounded line.Is there an L3 by chance?It should be L1,L2,L3 and N if it is 3 phase.If not it'll be L1,L2 and N.N has no power on it,L1 and L2 are live lines.N should he white or gray.Did you check fuses and circuit breakers?L2 on a 3 wire or a 3 phase circuit should read 240 volts between L1 and L2.Try going between L1 and the green wire connection or the case of the generator,with the setting on resistance.There should be a small resistance reading there.Then do that between L2 and then L3.Should be a small reading.No problem,if you need assistance I check my email every day.The star you mentioned in the diagram tells me you have 3 phase parallel connected windings ,it can be connected either in parallel or series,but I won't go into that in depth.That gets confusing.Out of the middle of the star connection there should be a wire shown,thats your neutral wire.(the wire with no power on it.)That needs to be connected to the case of the generator somehow.Alright,I'll wait for your pics and get back to you.Good luck!
Finding a schematic is quite useful. I'm glad that the 15Kw 1950's generator I bought came with the manuals and schematics.
The larger generators are also designed so that you can remove the brushes without taking it all apart... So before you go to all the trouble look for large ~1 inch screwdriver slot plates in the outer case.
Hey Bill,you're right but the newer alternators don't even have brushes on slip rings anymore,they use the diode trick.They don't do away with the DC generator at the end but what they do do is either wind a small ac winding into the alternators' main stator or use a transformer tapped off the stator mains to run thru a diode bank/power resistor setup to keep the residual/active magnetism up in the DC field coils.Then what they do is take the CEMF developed on the DC armature and run it into the AC rotor(both are on the same shaft) neccesary to set up the dc rotating magnetic field that generates the heavy power current in the main stator windings.Pretty neat trick The voltage regulation is set by the tapped power resistors hooked into the DC field coils and of course the frequency is set by the speed of the engine,so it does away with the need for a field rheostat.I've even seen em with the DC coils on the inside with the AC stator wound 'around' the DC magnet coils.
Wahoo! Genset running! Turned out to be diodes in the rectifier. Had to cobble a few together by way of adapting and such but replaced the dead ones with new ones (slightly bigger) and it works! There definitely is a God and he makes allowances for fools, infants and guys who work with electricity. Yahoo!
'Course, I have day putting everythng back together but man, oh man, this feels good! Looking at the back end of that generator was like looking up a baboon's butt. Not pretty. And way more confusing than one would think. I felt like a proctologist!
Anyway, Davh.........thanks for being there.
No problem jd,glad I could be of help...only thing I could suggest is to balance out your house power load on all three phases;that diode(s) problably burnt out either because of age or too much current load on one diode set;they heat up after awhile and burn out.When you have even current load on all 8 poles of that DC magnet the diodes don't heat up as much.Anyways I am glad it worked out and hey now you have an idea about how the whole thing works and I think thats the most important of all!
Don't give me too much credit, Dh. I still have no idea how it all works. Maybe some partial, vague................nah................I know nothing. I still have trouble with the concept of alternating current. So, no credit, please. Luck and finding what looked like diodes was the key.
And yes, I agree, I have to balance the load. Which brings me to the post just below - finding a good (affordable) battery charger. Loading up one side with a 240v battery charger putting out 60 amps at 48 volts would balance it. While I was at the baboon's butt (generator end) I continued on and I 'split' one 240 phase into two 120's (previously I was running off just one 120) and have dedicated one of the 120 circuits to just the washing machine. So that will help.
The reality is I don't need 15kw. I need 7.5. But you work with what you have............right?
Exactly..and the extra capacity can't hurt either.Yes that should help a lot.Now the current load will be evenly balanced.
Isuzu engine powering a Fidelity 15kw generator. All of a sudden the inverter rejects the power. Upon checking, my genset has reduced from 240 volts to 180 volts??!! Not the engine - still putting out 60hz at 1800 rpms. Definitely the generator. May be the voltage regulator (wherever that is) but why all of a sudden? Suspect one 'terminal' of power. This unit has some kind of 'star' or pentagon like arrangement from which power is taken from each point. Combine just two and you get 120, combine three and get 240...........or something like that............electricty is not my strong suit. OK, I do not have a strong suit but being critical doesn't help. I am about to dig in and start taking things apart...............always a bad move when you have no idea what is in the black box. Davisonh..............you there?
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U.S. Coast Guard crews unloaded nearly three tons of cocaine -- worth about $55 million -- at Port Canaveral Tuesday after the 75-bale load was found at sea.
Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, based in Portsmouth, Va., pulled in more than 5,000 pounds of cocaine, after suspected drug smugglers ditched the contraband while making a getaway, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Lauren Jorgensen said in a news release.
The Coast Guard received information from a Canadian Maritime Patrol Aircraft alerting them to the suspected smugglers. A helicopter crew from the Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron launched from the Tampa to stop the suspicious vessel. The boat then fled after dumping the cocaine.
"The entire operation ran like clockwork," said Cmdr. Susan Polizzotto, commanding officer of the Tampa. "The cutter and helicopter crews did exceptionally well on this important mission and we recognize the vital support of international partners that enables us to keep dangerous drugs off our streets."
The drug bust was part of Operation Martillo, a United States government effort to curb the movement of drugs, weapons and cash in Central American waters, according to the Coast Guard.
In early November, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant, based in Port Canaveral, returned to port after an eight-week patrol as part of Operation Martillo. In that time, the crew seized more than 5,300 pounds of cocaine worth about $64 million.
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Some SoCal people near the beach use this word and it's just an abbreviation for macho + cutie. A compliment girls often use on skaters
That guy is a mutie.
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Mute (noun) is a creature, most often human, who has been mutated by radiation and acuired monster-like properties, such as green skin, huge muscle growth, warts and disfigurations. This is usualy acompanied by lowered intelect, increased resilliance, and an intense hatred of people unnafected (see normies)
Fuckin' muties ain't gonna get in MY bomb shelter.
Them muties have been stealin' my chickens again.
Them muties have been stealin' my chickens again.
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29 de septiembre de 2003
A movie, tv show or music video that is best watched on mute (ie. no volume). Often, this is for a video that is generally considered bad, but still contains lots of hot women. What you do when it's on mute, is your business :)
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