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How to Hang Origami Cranes from a Parasol
Intro: CLICK TO VIEW both the Spring and Red Parasol cranes which are examples of variations of hanging cranes from a paper parasol.
This idea is presented because a reader requested this information :) I will create a subsequent idea that shows how to hang the cranes themselves to link to these small metal rings.
Using this method will allow you to make each strand of cranes detachable which makes transporting the cranes much easier. You will need:
Paper Parasol
Nail Clippers
Cotton/Poly Sewing Thread
White Craft Glue
Sewing Needle
Pen or Marker
Jewelry Findings:
• Split Jump Rings
• Necklace Clasps
Step 5
Now drop the jump ring over the needle.
Step 6
Tie the thread into another knot to hold it the ring in place.
Step 7
Repeat step 3 running the needle around the spine 2-3 more times and tie off again with at least two knots. In this picture the thread is wrapped around the spine 4 times which means 8 strands of thread total.
Step 8
Now place a dab of white glue on the thread near the spine.
Step 9
Use your fingernail to push the thread against the spine and hold it there until the glue becomes tacky enough to hold the thread in place. Probably a minute or so.
Step 10
Leave the glue to dry completely. When you come back to the parasol use a pair of nail clippers to snip the ends of the thread as close as possible to the spine along the paper surface, not next to the knots.
Step 11
It should look like this. If you hang each strand of cranes to a thread attached to a necklace clasp you can then fasten a strand of cranes to the ring now located on the underside of the parasol.
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text: Martin-Denver had begun major weld fabrication of GLV-1 and GLV-2 tanks in September 1962 and delivered the GLV-1 tanks to Martin-Baltimore on October 10. After extensive testing, the tanks went through a roll-out inspection February 14-16, 1963, by Air Force, NASA, Aerospace, and Martin personnel. The inspecting team rejected the stage II oxidizer tank because it was found to be cracked. The rejected tank was returned to Denver and replaced by the GLV-2 stage II oxidizer tank.


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Sean Blackwell, M.D., specializes in maternal-fetal medicine and has clinical and scientific expertise in preterm birth, medical complications of pregnancy, role of obesity in pregnancy outcomes, pregnancy in women with physical disabilities, fetal brain injury and shoulder dystocia. He also is the UTHealth principal investigator for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network.
Previous Interview: http://bit.ly/nibojO
Lara Friel, M.D., Ph.D., is a high-risk pregnancy obstetrician. Her clinical and research interests include preeclampsia and preterm rupture of fetal membranes. She is a member of the UTHealth Maternal-Fetal team at the The Fetal Center, one of only eight institutions in the country designated as a research center by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Jennifer Hoskovec, M.S., C.G.C., has clinical and research expertise in prenatal testing and screening, psychosocial counseling for prenatal patients, genetic counseling graduate student education and genetic counseling professional issues. She is certified by the American Board of Genetic Counselors and serves as the 2014 president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors.
Kenneth J. Moise, Jr., M.D., has a special interest in the prenatal diagnosis and minimally invasive surgical treatment of fetal disorders. These include fetal anemia secondary to maternal red cell alloimmunization, twin-twin transfusion, discordant fetal anomalies in monochorionic twins and twin-reversed arterial perfusion sequence (TRAP). Moise is also actively involved in the open fetal surgical repair program for myelomeningocele at The Fetal Center, one of only eight institutions in the country designated as a research center by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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Almost all vehicle manufacturers have a philanthropic program of some sort or other to provide vehicles to worthy non-profit organizations. Toyota is one of those that seem to make the news a little more often. They call their annual program 100 Cars For Good and as part of that initiative, a vehicle was furnished to the East Texas Food Bank.
Classic Toyota of Tyler was the setting in mid-January for the presentation of a new 2014 Toyota Prius to help fight hunger in East Texas. The car was one of 100 Toyota vehicles that will be given away by the automaker in the next 50 days to 100 different non-profit groups. The 100 Cars For Good is designed to touch lives that need help as well as engage the communities and the public in helping make the award. Toyota seeks 'votes' from the public in the decision making.
The national voting took place in October of 2013 with the program profiling five different finalists each day. Then the public could go to the internet at www.100CarsForGood.com and let their own voices be known as to which group could probably do the most good and reach the most people with the new vehicles. The top two 'winners' each day received one of five models from Toyota and the runners-up received a $1000 cash grant.
The East Texas Food Bank distributes food to approximately 200 different agencies over a 26-county area. The new Toyota Prius will be used by the organization's team of volunteers and staff members. The Food Bank focuses on child hunger, seniors, mobile pantry, and nutrition.
Scott Reed is the general sales manager of Classic Toyota of Tyler and participated in the presentation. He commented, "Classic Toyota of Tyler is proud to have a role in the 100 Cars for Good program and recognize the East Texas Food Bank for its dedication to fighting hunger, especially in rural areas such as Tyler and the rest of East Texas. The 100 Cars for Good program allows us all to have a role in advancing charities' work, and we couldn't be happier to help the East Texas Food Bank into this new Prius."
"The 100 Cars for Good program elevates nonprofits' positive impact and is an opportunity for Toyota to demonstrate our commitment to communities across America," said Michael Rouse, vice president of diversity, philanthropy and community affairs for Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. "All 100 of the winners are providing extraordinary and much-needed services, and we thank Classic Toyota of Tyler for its role in delivering East Texas Food Bank's car to help them with their important work."
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The Buzz, 3-30: Our Forgotten
On the Eve of her Bicentennial, Taglioni's Gravestone Crumbles;
Will her Legacy?
By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2004 The Dance Insider
PARIS -- This clear,
brisk, early Spring morning at the Montmartre Cemetery reveals two
large terra cotta pots of fresh flowers and plants on the grave
of Louise Weber, not far from the cemetery's entrance. A metal post
projecting from the pot reads "Le Moulin Rouge." The celebrated
birthplace of the Cancan makes sure there are always fresh flowers
on the grave of Weber, who, as the tomb's inscription notes, was
better known as "La Goule" and the "creatrice de French Cancan."
The flowers signal that the Moulin Rouge is a living institution
which reveres and respects its heritage. Continue up the road a
spell, turn left on the rue Hector-Berlioz, past the graves of Francois
Truffaut and Heinrich Heine, and follow it to the rue Samson where,
hidden away a few yards behind the ornate grave of Vaslav Nijinsky,
you'll find the deteriorating final
resting place of Marie Taglioni, the first dancer to
use pointe artistically. A detached plaque, broken in half at the
"T" in Taglioni, remembers her with the words "a sa mere bien-aimee"
(to his/her beloved mother). April 23 marks the bicentennial of
the birth of the mother of classical ballet. But does anybody care?
Not, apparently, the most immediate beneficiaries of her legacy,
the Paris Opera Ballet and School, which, at presstime, have no
commemoration planned, save a reprise of Pierre Lacotte's reconstruction
of Phillipe Taglioni's "La Sylphide" (although Taglioni is not credited
as the original choreographer on the Opera's web site), the work
in which his daughter performed her miracle.
Here at the Dance Insider,
we thought we could organize a celebration of Taglioni's legacy
to honor her on her bicentennial; but no sponsors came forward.
Not the ballet companies to whom she left that legacy, not the pointe
shoe company owners who, one could say, owe their livelihoods to
her. We also asked the DI's readers to send pointe shoes for her
grave, our goal being to pile them so high on the grave that a visitor
to Nijinsky's tomb (clearly marked with, among other things, a life-sized
Petrouchka sculpture) would see the pointe shoes and investigate.
We collected about 17 pairs, including six from Bloch and contributions
from Anna Arias Rubio, Cynthia Quinn and Quinn Pendleton, Maina
Gielgud and even a pair signed in Labanotation from our webmistress,
Robin Hoffman. We could still use more, but we are running out of
time. (Write me at email@example.com
for details)
When we first put out
the call for pointe shoes, a reader wrote in to point out that the
shoes would be better put to use donated to the Cuban National Ballet;
after all, Taglioni wouldn't have any use for them. What's at stake
here, though, is not just a neglected grave but ballet's and dance's
(remember, you moderns and post-moderns, at the time, Taglioni's
innovation was the same sort of expansion of kinetic possibilities
that you strive for) self-respect and thus the respect it garners
in the general cultural and popular discourse. If we don't respect
our history and revere our art's ancestors, why should the general
public respect dance at all?
I've been pondering
why dance is the least respected of the arts. The answer isn't too
hard to find; in the popular view, it's an activity associated with
women and, in that context, seen by most more as a natural, even
sexual extension of 'the fairer sex' than an art form. And, notwithstanding
the recognition accorded to Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn, the
more celebrated dancers and choreographers in the wider (beyond
dance) media are men: Baryshnikov, Nureyev, Nijinsky, Balanchine.
Even if the attention given to Balanchine and Frederick Ashton in
this their centennial year is deserved, let's face it: If there
hadn't been a Taglioni, there wouldn't have been a Balanchine. Indeed,
it is Taglioni and her descendents, ever ready to attempt the heretofore
impossible, who enable choreographers to expand their and the art's
Now it's time to give
back. Before long, unless something is done, the already detached
tombstone will crumple into dust or be stolen, and no one will know
who lies buried in that grave. Her name will continue to slide into
oblivion, and the respect of dance for itself and by others with
To read more about Taglioni, check Tobi Tobias's Vignette "Taglioni's
Shoe," by clicking here.
For photographs of Taglioni's grave with the pointe shoes dedicated
by DI readers, click here.


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For more information about this meeting, contact Stephanie Zerby, Mark Levi, Victor Nistor, Jinchao Xu.
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|Dr. Zhenli Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
|In this talk, I will present electrostatic algorithms for inhomogeneous media developed in my group. The talk is composed of three parts. Firstly, we studied the image charge method of the Green's function problem of a dielectric sphere immersed in a medium described by the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, which has been used for multiscale reaction-field model of ionic fluids. Second, we discuss the harmonic interpolation algorithm for ionic interaction in spatially varying media and its application in simulating inhomogeneous electric double layers. Third, we present an algorithm for multiple dielectric objects used in studying like charge attraction. Monte Carlo simulation results based on these algorithms are present to demonstrate the performance of these algorithms, and to understand properties of colloid/electrolyte interfaces.
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Turning into 42.
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they match each other :)
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happy birthday to your mom, she looks prettier now than when she's younger :) and i love that outer top you wore <3ReplyDelete
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ZF-12523: ZF2 module based layouts
I was working on zf1 and now I have decided to learn zf2. I am really facing difficulty to load layouts based on module.
Here is the scenario:
Two modules currently: Application and Admin
As Application module is activated by default, I have activated Admin module. Now every time I open url(s) example.com or example.com/admin, it loads Admin layout as it is at last index in config/application.config.php modules array.
I printed my configurations in onBootstrap method of Application/Module.php and I noticed other configurations are fine except view_manager. As I mentioned earlier Admin is last module it overrides view_manager settings ( view_manager index only loads Admin module settings ) that makes it to load admin layout. If I place Application module at last index in modules array of config/application.config.php, it will load view_manager settings from application module and so the layout.
Please guide me what to do now. I have googled and found people loading layouts by defining their configurations but that's what I am not looking for.
My suggestion:
I think view_manager data must be wrapped in an index named as of module, if we do that and print configurations, view_manager now contains two indexes application and admin and their configurations against each index. Then zend library must load configurations based on module being browsed by user or routed.
I am anxiously waiting for your response.
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Linux Foundation Grows by Four
Fluendo, Lineo Solutions, Mocana, and NVidia join the Linux Foundation and see the benefits of Linux in the future of computing.
The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, recently announced that four companies are joining the organization: Fluendo, Lineo Solutions, Mocana, and NVidia. According to the announcement, companies see the benefits of Linux and the collaborative development model as key advantages in the future of computing and are adopting the operating system for a variety of applications.
The announcement provided some brief information about the newly joined companies:
- Fluendo is a leading multimedia software development company and GStreamer expert. The company specializes in software development and consulting services to enable multimedia on a variety of devices and operating systems. Fluendo employs several of the central developers of GStreamer, an open source framework, and provides a wide range of products under and above GStreamer, such as legal playback plugins, a DVD Player, and a media center.
- Lineo Solutions is based in Japan and has more than 19 years of experience in Linux and embedded systems development. The company helps its customers speed time to market with professional services, tools, and training in this area.
- Mocana is a device-agnostic security platform that protects mobile devices, apps, and the information and services that run across them. The World Economic Forum in Geneva recently selected Mocana as one of its 25 "Technology Pioneers for 2012."
- NVidia invented the Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) in 1999. These multicore processors enable PC gamers to enjoy fully immersive worlds and help professionals design everything from the latest cars to digital film characters. The processors provide researchers and scientists with the ability to run high-performance applications efficiently and are deployed in supercomputing sites around the world.
More details can be found at: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/.
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During fetal development in females, the Mullerian ducts mature into the Fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, and upper third of the vagina, (the so-called "Mullerian organs"). The lower part of the vagina is derived from a primitive structure called the urogenital sinus, which comes from the perineum. In males, the Mullerian ducts regress under the influence of a hormone, Mullerian Inhibitory Factor or MIF, from the developing testes.
In AIS, although the testes fail to cause masculinization of the external genitalia, they do produce sufficient MIF to suppress development of Fallopian tubes, uterus, and upper vagina. The upper third of the vagina is invariably missing, but the lower two-thirds may be fully developed and sufficient for intercourse. The reason is not clear, but in some cases the vagina may be even shorter, perhaps only a few centimeters, or even just a 'dimple'. The incidence of significant vaginal hypoplasia among AIS patients does not seem to be known.
It was suggested to the suport group in the mid-1990s by one paediatrician that significant shortening of the vagina in AIS indicates some degree of partial sensitivity to androgens (PAIS) and that those with the complete form (CAIS) should not have a major problem. This is obviously not the case since we know that two sisters, each diagnosed as CAIS (and with no androgen-dependent pubic/axillary hair), can have vaginal lengths at opposite ends of the spectrum. We also know of women with grades 4 and 5 Partial AIS who were born with fairly well-developed partial vaginas and who were able to achieve sufficient vaginal length for intercourse without surgery.
It should be noted that because of the vagina's natural elasticity, and because it tends to expand with arousal, the unstretched length of the vagina is usually less than the length it achieves with penetration. A survey of textbooks and medical papers in the mid-1990s revealed average quoted lengths ranging from 9 to 11 cm for the longest (posterior) wall in normal XX women. Shah and Woolley give the normal length as greater than or equal to 6 cm, and state that in a group of 21 AIS patients 11 had a vagina of 5 cm or less in length.
In their review of AIS, paediatric specialists Charmian Quigley and Frank French (The Laboratories for Reproductive Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7500, USA) spell out that in AIS ".... it is clear that the vagina is often short (less than 5 cm)". One post-operative study (Mobus et al) of 24 patients who underwent vaginoplasty (several methods), producing vaginas varying from 3.5 to 12 cm in length, found that 6 cm was the cut-off point below which patients and their partners had problems in achieving intercourse.
In pubertal girls with AIS, the issue of vaginal hypoplasia should not be ignored or deferred until a girl is considered old enough to begin her sex life. Some discover a short vagina through self-examination, and can live in fear and isolation with this secret for many years. Others have experienced the trauma of a failed attempt at intercourse. If a girl perceives that she is unable to have penetrative sex due to a short or absent vagina, her conclusion may be that she will be forever ineligible to be anyone's sex partner. This can lead to depression, and prevent normal social development.
Counselling, with the goal of preventing such occurrences by providing information, should be given near the age of puberty. The girl should be informed truthfully of her anatomical situation and concurrently told what treatment is available.
Before advice is given, an examination should be made to assess vaginal length. In the support group, we know of girls who were caused needless anguish by being mistakenly told that they would require surgery to have intercourse, when they actually required no treatment at all.
There are two basic approaches to treating vaginal hypoplasia. One is to use plastic surgery (vaginoplasty) techniques to construct a new vagina out of tissue from various donor sites. The other is to expand and enlarge the tissue already present at the vaginal entrance by applying pressure (pressure dilation) over an extended period of time.
The results of pressure dilation are superior to those of vaginoplasty. After dilation, the vagina is lined with mucosal tissue very similar to that of a normal vagina, which has tactile sensation, and which lubricates with sexual arousal. Plastic surgery techniques often introduce foreign tissue (e.g. external skin or pieces of bowel) into the area.
Dilation should always be the first intervention tried, with surgery resorted to only after dilation has been ruled out. Dilation is also required following most surgical methods of vaginoplasty, and this postoperative dilation can be more painful than dilation without operation. While performing dilation will not adversely affect the potential success of a subsequent surgical vaginoplasty, creation of a vagina by dilation is generally successful only if plastic surgical vaginoplasty has not been previously attempted.
As mentioned before, the extent of development of the vagina does not correlate precisely with extent of masculinization in PAIS. It is possible for a well-developed partial vagina to coexist with fused outer vaginal lips (creating the appearance of no vaginal entrance at all). In this kind of situation, surgical division of the fused labia may be needed to facilitate intercourse, but should be carried out with careful thought given to not interfering with the potential success of vaginal dilation. In some cases, vaginal dilation can be carried out by manually pushing back the web of tissue created by the fused labia.
In addition to the information provided in the following sections, vaginal hypoplasia and the treatment options available are also discussed in various issues of our newsletter, ALIAS (see 'ALIAS Refs' lower down this page).
All of these procedures are best deferred until after puberty so that dilation can be tried first, and because vaginoplasty in childhood usually has poor results.
This is the most common surgical technique used. A newly created (neovaginal) cavity lined with split-thickness skin graft held in place with mold (stent). The main problem is the strong tendency of the graft to contract, thus closing up the cavity, prevention of which requires conscientious use of dilators postoperatively.
The neovagina is lined with full-thickness skin grafts (which tend to contract less than split-thickness grafts), or with amnion or non-biological materials, which become gradually replaced by vaginal epithelium (cells that form the vaginal lining) during a somewhat prolonged convalescence.
This method uses peritoneum (the membrane lining of the abdominal cavity) to line a newly excavated vagina. Gynaecologists Sarah Creighton, Cathy Minto and Alfred Cutner (a specialist in laparascopic techniques) from UCLHl, London (see Recommended Clinicians) visited a Prof. D'Argent in France in early 2000 and witnessed an operation with some similarities to this technique but involving use of the wall of the bladder(?). Sarah reported:
We did however go to Lyon last year.... We went to see Prof D'Argent do a laparoscopic Davydov. The procedure looked good.... We also saw a patient who had undergone the procedure the previous week and the vagina was a good size. However it is a more major procedure than the Vecchietti [see later] and our preference would be to do the Vecchietti if possible. D'Argent has published [data] a large series [of patients] but it is in French.
A vagina is formed from a transplanted length of patient's colon (gut), tied at one end and moved down to new position with blood supply intact (also known as colovaginoplasty). This is possibly the most invasive of the techniques used. Afterwards, there may be a problem with prolonged mucous discharge. Claimed advantages include less contracture than with the McIndoe procedure.
The outer edges of the labia minora (if they are large enough) are stitched together forming an outward, rather than an inward, extension to the vagina. The axis of this extension is angled slightly differently from that of the normal vagina (less so in more modern variants), but Muram et al report a case in which it was possible to reverse the operation after some time, once the procedure had enabled a deepening of the original short inner vagina via intercourse.
To a girl with no experience of surgery, the effort required to create a vaginal cavity by dilation may seem daunting. She should be aware that the inconvenience and discomfort imposed are usually far less than that experienced after conventional surgical vaginoplasty. Some who had been leaning towards preferring surgical vaginoplasty change their minds after speaking with adult AIS women who had undergone surgery.
This procedure (sometimes known as the Frank pressure dilation method, after the doctor who first advocated it, in 1938) is carried out by the girl herself at home. Rounded rod-shaped appliances are placed at the vaginal introitus (entrance), and gentle pressure (enough to cause mild discomfort) is applied. This is typically done once or twice per day for 20 to 30 minutes. The time to completion of treatment can vary from less than one month to over a year. An adequate dosage of oral oestrogen, plus local application of vaginal oestrogen cream may be helpful.
Pressure dilation requires that the patient be motivated to persist in carrying out the procedure daily, and that she is able to overcome whatever inhibitions she may have about contact with her own genitalia. For some, this is a serious problem that can prevent progress. Communication with others who have achieved success can be helpful. Ingram called this a "prime component" of the technique, saying that "The patient-to-patient confidence and motivation thus engendered appeared to be of a substantially higher degree than that provided by the gynecologist alone."
The appliances originally used for vaginal dilation were ordinary glass or plastic test tubes (note that for safety reasons, we do not recommend using glass test tubes). In 1981 Ingram not only developed a set of Lucite appliances, but also introduced a specialized stool (the "bicycle seat") which allows dilation to be carried out while the patient is clothed and in a sitting position. The pressure is applied to the base of the appliance by the seat of the stool. This frees the patient to perform activities such as schoolwork concurrently with dilation.
In around 1997 Dr. D. Veronikis, in a further refinement, developed appliances that are also designed to be used in a seated position, but on an ordinary chair, thus removing the need for the cumbersome stool. They have a design that allows adjustment of their length in very small increments, which helps make the process less uncomfortable. There are two versions of the dilator kit, one for use after surgery, to maintain vaginal length, and one for use when starting from scratch to form a vagina by pressure dilation alone. They are available in the US from Marina Medical Systems and in the UK from Cory Brothers (see Links to Other Web Sites). Dr. Veronikis has spoken at meetings of the US AISSG and claims that use of his dilator kit can succesfully treat vaginal hypoplasia in just 4 weeks. He also performs the Vecchietti procedure (see below).
A popular type of modern user-friendly dilator are the "Amielle Vaginal Trainers", a set of lightweight hollow plastic cones in a set of four sizes, with a handle that fits each size and which helps with manoeverability. These are the ones used by the multi-disciplinary clinic at UCLH, London (see Recommended Clinicians) and are available from Owen Mumford (see Links to Other Web Sites).
The various types of vaginal dilator are discussed, and illustrated, in the issues of our newsletter (ALIAS) that are listed under 'ALIAS Refs' towards the end of this page.
See 'General Refs' at foot of page for access to two magazine/newspaper articles - Born Without (1983) and I Grew My Own Vagina (2006) - featuring women who successfully used pressure dilation to form a vagina.
A number of AIS women in the support group have found vaginal oestrogen cream to be of great help in the use of dilators. It results in a 'plumping' up and cushioning of the vaginal tissues and makes the use of dilators (and intercourse) much more comfortable. Vaginal oestrogen is available in the form of creams (e.g. Ortho-Dienoestrol, Ovestin, and Premarin) or as pessaries (e.g. Ortho-Gynest and Tampovagan), or tablets (e.g. Vagifem), or a vaginal ring (e.g. Estring) which releases oestradiol locally over three months.
Systemic HRT (tablets, patches etc.) does not always produce an improvement in vaginal symptoms (dryness, and atrophy or shrinkage of tissue) and vaginal oestrogen may also be needed to improve the condition of the vaginal epithelium (lining). Some doctors will say that women don't need vaginal oestrogen if they are taking the correct systemic (whole-body) HRT. Many AIS women have found this not to be the case.
One CAIS woman know to the support group failed to achieve penetrative sex during the course of a long-term relationship and decided it was because her vagina was too narrow. All the (male) doctors to whom she turned for advice dismissed the problem (it had been recorded that her vagina was of a reasonable length). She also suffered from recurrent cystitis (urinary tract infection) which made her life a misery. It wasn't until she happened to see a female locum (stand-in) GP, after many years of anguish, that vaginal oestrogen cream was recommended. This cured all the problems, more or less overnight.
This is a technique that has been pioneered in continental Europe; and in the mid-1990s, when we first came across it, didn't seem to have caught on elsewhere, in spite (it seemed to us) of obvious advantages over plastic surgery methods.
Pressure is applied in the vaginal area by a dilation 'olive', a plastic bead through which traction sutures or threads are threaded (think of a small horse chestnut 'conker' on a string!). The traction sutures run up through the abdominal cavity to a traction device placed on the outside of the abdomen. The vagina is not constructed during the operation (under anaesthetic) to place the traction sutures, but is formed by the stretching forces applied once the patient has recovered from this. Over the course of 7-10 days, the vagina lengthens to about 8-12 cm by gradually increasing the tension on the traction sutures. Intercourse is said to be possible after 3-5 weeks. The Vecchietti procedure is useful when manual dilation is excessively uncomfortable, or when progress in dilation is poor. Its relative advantages over manual dilation are greater when the vagina is initially represented by only a very shallow dimple.
Dr. J. F. H. Gauwerky (in 1996 was at Zentrum fur Frauenheilkunde, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) has made a video for clinicians describing the Vecchietti procedure.
Dr Evelyn Loeser, a gynaecologist, worked at the University of Tübingen, Germany, with Prof. Wallwiener in a team that has experience with vaginal dilation and the Vecchietti method. She now (2006) practises in Endingen and at the University of Freiburg Clinic.
Another female gynaecologist, Dr. G. Buck (Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ulm, Prittwitzstrasse 43, D-89075 Ulm, Germany) works in a team with experience of this method.
Dr. Jorg Keckstein (in 1996 was at Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Provincial Hospital of Carinthia, Nikolaigasse 43, A-9500, Villach, Austria) has worked with Dr. Buck (above) and is willing to treat overseas patients.
Dr. Uwe Ulrich (in 1995 was at Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA) has also worked with Keckstein and Buck (above).
Dr. D. Veronikis, Chief of Gynecology, St. John's Mercy Medical Center, 615 South New Ballas Rd., St. Louis, MO 63141-8277, USA) carries out the Vecchietti procedure. Dr. Veronikis talked about this at the 3rd meeting of ASSG US in Sept. 1998 in Chicago. In his 1997 paper (see 'General Refs' below) Dr. Veronikis says:
....The Vecchietti operation has been a well-accepted method in [continental] Europe for constructing a neovagina. Guiseppe Vecchietti first described his technique in 1965 and subsequently reported a 14-year cumulative experience with 307 consecutive cases in 1979 and 1980. However, for the most part, the technique remains unfamiliar in the English-speaking world. ....
In the Conclusions it is stated that ....
With the Vecchietti method, a neovagina has not been constructed at the end of surgery. Rather, it is the postoperative traction on the olive [positioned in the interlabial space] that constructs the neovagina. Therefore, it is a true dilation-type neovagina .... similar to the Franks method. However, in contrast to the intermittent pressure technique of Frank [using dilators by hand] which requires considerable patient effort and time, the Vecchietti method applies constant round-the-clock traction that creates a functional vagina [of 10-12 cm length] in 7-9 days.
The founder of AISSG US was in touch with Dr. Veronikis (late 1997). She told us:
Dr. Veronikis told me that there is just no reason why any clinician should have carried out a Williams [vulvo-vaginoplasty] or McIndoe [skin-graft vaginoplasty] or any other procedure after the Vecchietti method was introduced in 1965. Veronikis uses a laparascopic approach which sounds much like the Keckstein approach. He said, however, that so long as someone has at least 2 cms there is no reason to have even this semi-surgical method because he has pioneered a set of dilators which will completely correct the problem in only a month. I said Oh really, and he said Yes, absolutely.....He said he really only recommends the surgery if there is truly only a dimple (because his experience is that dilation doesn't work in such situations). He said he thought women with AIS had one of the hardest situations to deal with that he could imagine.
Gynaecologists Sarah Creighton and Cathy Minto at UCLH London (see Recommended Clinicians) told us (Spring 1999) that they hoped to visit Villach, Austria, to observe the Vecchietti method. Sarah reported (Aug 2001):
"We are very keen to offer the Vecchietti. Unfotunately we are having difficulty in the UK at present. We are unable to order the equipment as it is not licensed by the company for use in the UK. All equipment used on patients here has to be approved by a government body. It takes ages to do this. In terms of doing the operation we already have the practical skills so it is just a question of getting the equipment licensed... I have several patients waiting who would like and (be suitable for) the Vecchietti. A urologist called Pat Malone in Southampton also has several patients waiting for this and we are also working with him to get approval".
By mid 2002 the equipment had arrived and the first procedure had been scheduled for Sept 2002.
Of course there is also the option of not undergoing any physical treatment for vaginal hypoplasia but instead being offered psychological counselling tailored to exploring the various aspects of sexual expression, and maybe adopting the attitude that human intimacy is not necessarily all about penetrative sex.
A middle-aged CAIS woman wrote:
"If I hadn't been so fixated on penetrative sex as being the only option, and hadn't been too intimidated, shamed and stigmatized by the way my AIS had been mis-managed to push for treatment then I might have had a better chance at achieving some sort of human intimacy, given my particular circumstances [virtually no vagina]. It makes me quite angry that no one encouraged me to think that way when I was younger. [...] I wish that I'd had a chance earlier in my life to discuss this possible mindset with a psycho-sexual counsellor, since our high-tech medical system hadn't seemed able to provide me with a vagina at the time when one might have been of use to me in developing some view of myself as a sexual person, in the sense generally recognized by this society."
While medical treatment for enhancing the possibility of 'penis-in-vagina' sex should be explored if a woman with AIS (maybe in agreement with her partners and family) feels this ought to be an integral part of her life, girls and women with AIS can be allowed to explore the possibility of other forms of sexual satisfaction, which in many relationships, particularly same-sex relationships, form the core of physical intimacy. By accepting a paradigm shift from "morphology" to "sensation", a richer form of relation between an AIS woman and her sexual body can be achieved. Human sexuality is expressed through a variety of ways, and society offers many examples of people with different orientations and leanings who don't require a (normal length) vagina for fulfilling their erotic potential.
In terms of a child with AIS, it therefore makes sense for a parent to wait on surgical treatment for vaginal hypoplasia until the girl herself can explore the matter, ideally by talking to a psycho-sexual therapist, and take an active and positive role in dealing with her natural inclinations and physical characteristics. What seems to be, in our experience, more important than early 'correction' of vaginal hypoplasia is having an opportunity to talk about the issues involved, both psychological as well as physical, when the girl reaches an age where she can understand about her condition.
Historically, paediatricians writing about AIS have often neglected to give attention to vaginal hypoplasia. One paediatric AIS expert told us in the early 1990s that he didn't consider that vaginal hypoplasia was really an issue in AIS. When the need for treatment has been mentioned in the medical literature, surgical vaginoplasty by the McIndoe procedure has been most often mentioned, usually with a recommendation to defer this until the time of anticipated intercourse. This was intended to obviate the need for postoperative dilation, but was likely to put a strain on the formation and maintenance of relationships. More recently, vaginoplasty by the even more invasive intestinal transposition has been promoted as a superior alternative, as the graft would have less of a tendency to shrink.
Pressure dilation has received less attention than justified by the good results possible and by the minimal expense, risk, and discomfort this technique involves. Even when mentioned in the literature, it has tended to be dismissed in favor of surgical alternatives. The overall trend, however, is increasingly in favour of less invasive procedures.
Lack of vaginal development is also a feature of some non-intersex, XX female conditions such as MRKH (Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser syndrome). See Related Conditions.
ALIAS Refs:
"Vaginal Agenesis/Hypoplasia" and "Vaginoplasty/Pressure Dilatation"
in ALIAS No. 2
"Vaginal Dilators" in ALIAS No. 3 (illustrates/compares various standard perspex dilators)
"Vaginal Aplasia Treatments" in ALIAS No. 4
"Vaginal Dilators Re-visited" (illustrates narrow dilators, 11 lengths, commissioned by founder of AISSG US from Univ. San Diego, California) and "Vecchietti Video" and "Inside Out" in ALIAS No. 5
"External Emphasis", "Vecchietti Re-visited" and "Stretch Yourself" in ALIAS No.6
"Plumbing Problem Perception", "Inferior Interiority" and "Vorsprung durch Technic?" in ALIAS No. 7
"Vaginal Hypoplasia" (about the Vecchietti method) and "User-Friendly Dilators" in ALIAS No. 11 (describes/illustrates the 'Amielle' dilators)
"A Move in the Right Direction" in ALIAS No. 12 (describes/illustrates the 'Veronikis' dilators)
"3rd US Meeting" (describes/illustrates the Vecchietti method and more about the [2 types of] 'Veronikis' dilator) and "Vaginal Hypoplasia Discussion" in ALIAS No. 13
"Vaginoplasty vs Dilation", "A Vote for Vecchietti" and "The Ups and Downs of Dilators" in ALIAS No. 14
"MRKH/Vaginal Atresia" in ALIAS No. 19
"Vecchietti Method" in ALIAS No. 20
"Dilation/Vecchietti "in ALIAS No. 21
General Refs:
See Medical Literature Sites on our 'Links to Other Sites' page for ways of accessing journal articles.
Frank R.T: The formation of an artificial vagina without operation. Am. J. Obstet. Gynec. 35, (1938), pp. 1053-1055.
Vecchietti et al: Le Neo-vagin dans le syndrome de Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser. Rev. Med. Suisse Romande (1979): 99: p593-601 (In French).
Ingram M.J: The bicycle seat stool in the treatment of vaginal agenesis and stenosis: A preliminary report. Am. J. Obstet. Gynec. Vol. 140 No. 8, (1981) pp. 867-873.
Born Without by Margaret Horsfield. Published in She magazine, approx. 1983. Describes the progress of a young girl in using the pressure dilation method to form a vagina, under the guidance of the (then) Chelsea Hospital for Women.
'The Missing Vagina' by Noreen Nash Siegel - An article from USA edition of Cosmopolitan magazine (1990), giving the early history of awareness of congenital absence of the vagina and its treatment together with an account of the experience of two women. Copy available from AIS Support Group.
Johnson N. and Lilford R.J.: The Surgical Treatment of Gynaecological Malformations. Chapter 25, 413-431, in Progress in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Volume 8. Ed. J. Studd. Publishers: Churchill Livingston, Edinburgh 1990.
Shah R., Woolley M.M., Costin G: Testicular feminization: the androgen insensitivity syndrome. J. Paediatric Surgery, Vol 27, No 6 (June) 1992, pp 757-760.
Gauwerky et al: An endoscopically assisted technique for construction of a neovagina. Arch. Gynecol. Obstet. (1992): 252: p59-63 (In English).
Care and Counseling of the Patient with Vaginal Agenesis (or at http://www.isna.org/articles/foley-morley.html) by Sallie Foley and George Morley. Originally published in The Female Patient, 17 (October):73-80, 1992.
Mobus V., Sachweh K., Knapstein P.G., Kreienberg R: Women after surgically corrected vaginal aplasia: a follow up of psychosexual rehabilitation. (German with English abstract). Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd (Germany) Feb 1993, 53 (2), pp125-31.
Muram D. et al: The Ancilary use of Williams Vulvovaginoplasty for Graduated Vaginal Dilation in Selected Patients with Rokitansky Syndrome. Adolesc. Pediat. Gyn. 1993, 6: 157-159.
Suzin J. et al: Formation of an artificial vagina using Vecchiettis method (in Polish). Ginekologia Polska, 64(9): 443-51, Sep 1993.
Quigley CA, French FS: Androgen insensitivity syndromes. Current Therapy in Endocrinology and Metabolism, 5th edition. Editor W Bardin. Mosby-Year Book Inc., 1994, pp. 342-354.
Fedele et al: Laparoscopic creation of a neovagina in Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome by modification of Vecchietti's operation. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. (1994): Vol. 171, No. 1. p268-269 (In English).
Ghirardini G and Popp L.W: New approach to the Mayer von Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome. Adolesc. Pediatr. Gynecol. 7(1): 41-43; 1994.
Keckstein et al: Laparoscopic creation of a neovagina: modified Vecchietti method. End. Surg. (1995) 3:93-95.
Cooper M.J. et al: Laparoscopic assisted Vecchietti procedure for the creation of a neovagina. J. Obs. and Gynaecol. Research, 22(4): 385-8, Aug 1996.
Bloechle M. et al: Vaginal reconstruction in vaginal aplasia by a Vecchietti modified laparoscopic operation further simplification of the method. Zentralblatt fur Gynakologie, 118(5): 303-6, 1996.
Wachter I: Vagina reconstruction by Vecchietti. Gerburtshilfe Frauenheilkd. 56(12): M181-M184; 1996.
Busacca M. et al: Laparoscopic-ultrasonographic combined technique for the creation of a neovagina in Meyer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome. Fertil. Steril. 1996; 66: 1039-41. Also:
David Thomas: Is Early Vaginal Reconstruction Wrong for Some Intersex Girls? ("As intersex surgery enters social debate, paediatric urologists rethink some medical aspects"). Urology Times, February 1997.
Alvarez-Nava F., Gonzales S., Soto M., Martinez C., and Prieto M: Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome: clinical and anatomopathological findings in 23 patients. Genet Counselling, Vol 8, 1997, p 7-12.
Borruto F. and Fistarol M: Does it make sense to carry out a Vecchietti intervention pelviscopically? Gynakol Geburtshilfe Rundsch. 37(1): 44-7; 1997.
Veronikis D. K: The Vecchietti operation for constructing a neovagina: indications, instrumentation and techniques. Obstet. and Gynecol., 90(2): 301-4, Aug 1997.
Groveman S: Medical, Psychological and Legal Issues in the Clinical Management of the Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Patient into Adulthood. A paper drafted in 1997 by Sherri Groveman who founded our sister group, AISSG US. It covers counselling, the clinical examination, truth disclosure, peer group support, vaginal construction, and gonadectomy and informed consent.
Fidele L. and Bianchi S: Laparoscopic creation of a neovagina in patients with Rokitanski syndrome: analysis of 52 cases. Fertility and Sterility, 2000, Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. 384-389.
An Additional Monologue. Article by the MRKH woman about her experience with vaginal agenesis (title is a reference to "The Vagina Monologues", a stage play/event by Eve Ensler). Published in hardcopy form as Missing Vagina Monologue, by Esther (Marguerite) Morris, Sojourner (The Women's Forum), Vol 26, No. 7, March 2001. The article can also be accessed via the MRKH Organisation site.
Sarah Creighton MD, MRCOG: Surgery for Intersex. J. Royal Soc. Med., Vol. 94, May 2001. http://www.jrsm.org/cgi/reprint/94/5/218
Statement of British Association of Paediatric Surgeons Working Party on the Surgical Management of Children Born with Ambiguous Genitalia, July 2001.
Sarah Creighton and Catherine Minto: Managing Intersex: Most vaginal surgery in childhood should be deferred. (Editorial) British Medical Journal, 323: 1264-1295 (1 Dec 2001). http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7324/1264
C. Minto & S. Creighton: Vaginoplasty. Accepted (Aug 2002) for publication in The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (RCOG journal).
Hart R., Minto C., and Creighton S: Vaginal Adhesions Caused by Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. J. Paed. and Adolesc. Gynaecol. 15 (3): 151-152, 2002. (A case report on loss of the vagina through a rare condition.)
Holt R. E. and Slade P: Living with an incomplete vagina and womb: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of vaginal agenesis. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 8 (1), p19-33, (2003).
C. Minto and S. Creighton: Vaginoplasty. To be published, Summer 2003, in The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, 5: 25-9 (2003). This is an educational journal for Roy. Coll. Obs. and Gyn. members.
M. Boyle, S. Smith, L. M. Liao: Consensual surgery for adult intersex women: Solution to what problem? Sue Smith gave informal feedback to AISSG about this vaginal surgery study (see 13th UK Group Meeting in ALIAS No. 19) and it has now (2003) been written up for publication. Publication details to be confirmed.
Smith S: Experiences of sexuality reported by women with intersex conditions who have undergone some form of genital modification: A tale of two sexes? D. Clin. Psychol. thesis, Department of Psychology, University of East London, Romford Rd., Stratford, London E15 4LZ, 2000. See summary in "13th UK Group Meeting" in ALIAS No. 19.
Wisniewski A.B., Migeon C.J., Meyer-Bahlburg H.F.L., Gearhart J.P., Berkovitz G.D., Brown T.R., Money J: Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: Long-Term Medical, Surgical, and Psychosexual Outcome (or here). J. Clin. Endoc. & Metab., Vol. 85, No. 8, 2000.
Minto C., Liao L.M., Conway G. and Creighton S: Sexual Function in Women with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (or here). Fertility and Sterility, Vol. 80, No. 1, July 2003, pp 157 - 164.
Lloyd J., Crouch N., Minto C.L., Liao L.M., and Creighton S.M: Female Genital Appearance: "Normality" Unfolds. Br. J. Obs and Gyn., 112: 643-646, 2005.
Liao L.M: Psychology and Clinical Management of Vaginal Hypoplasia. In Ethics and Intersex, Sharon E. Sytsma (Ed.), Springer, 2006.
Creighton S: Adult Outcomes of Feminizing Surgery. In Ethics and Intersex, Sharon E. Sytsma (Ed.), Springer, 2006.
I Grew My Own Vagina by Helen Scully in The Guardian newspaper (11 March 2006). An AIS woman's account of her struggle with the psychosocial aspects of her condition and of her successful use of pressure dilation to create a vagina.
Katy No Pocket. A children's book, first published decades before AIS was understood, which many parents find helpful when discussing the impact of AIS with their affected daughters.


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The upper Dan lends itself to the wading angler, but the public access on the lower Dan River is generally best for those using johnboat and small motors. There are, however, two one-day float trips the canoeist can easily make - the first from Danville to Milton, and the second from South Boston to Aarons Creek.
Talbott Dam Map
A ramp from hand-carried boats off Rt. 601 provides access to the lake created by this dam. Anglers can also hike below the dam to upper end of the six-mile stretch of special regulation stream with a 16-inch minimum, limit two fish per day. Fishing includes brook, brown and rainbow trout.
Townes Reservoir Map
The reservoir is reached via Rt. 602, where a ramp for hand-carried boats allows the angler downstream access to the "Grand Canyon" of Virginia, a six-mile stretch of rugged and spectacular scenery and fishing for naturally reproducing brown and rainbow trout. An angler can reach the mouth of the stream by crossing the lake in a boat or canoe. Or if he prefers he can fish the lake itself. Both the stream and the lake offer exciting angling possibilities.
Abreu-Grogan Park (Schoolfield Dam area)Map
This ramp on the South side of the river is located just upstream from Schoolfield Dam and the Park Ave. bridge. It can be reached from Bus. Rt. 29. This access allows anglers with a boat and motor to run upstream, but downstream floats are blocked by a series of dams (including the one immediately below the ramp). There are also bank fishing opportunities. Fish species available to anglers at this site include black bass, sunfish, and catfish. Striped bass migrating from Kerr Reservoir cannot reach this location, due to the presence of downstream dams.
Danville Map
The landing is reached by taking U.S. 58 east out of Danville and keeping eye out for River Point Road which is marked by a blue Water Pollution Control Plant sign. At the end of River Point Road, turn left and follow the blue signs. When you reach the river, the plant will be on your right, but turn left and you will see the access point just ahead. There will probably be some empty boat trailers in the parking lot. From this point downstream to Milton, the canoeist has a day float of 12 miles, and anglers will find this stretch productive for white bass, and white perch in early spring, followed by the striped bass run.
Milton, NCMap
Downstream from the Danville landing is a public access launching ramp owned by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission which is open to Virginia anglers. The ramp is approximately four miles from U.S. 58 at the Rt. 62 bridge crossing. You can tell by the number of vehicles parked at the landing whether the white bass are running. This is the takeout point for the canoeist making the Danville to Milton, North Carolina trip.
South Boston Map
Hyco River empties into the Dan River about 12 miles downstream from South Boston. This VDGIF landing is easily accessible from Rt. 58. You can fish Hyco River for bass, crappie, white bass and sunfish.
Aarons CreekMap
This landing, maintained by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, is located just downstream from Hyco and is easily accessible from Rt. 58. The canoeist floating from South Boston should hug the right bank and paddle past the confluence of the Dan and Hyco Rivers. Keep your eyes out for a bend in river to the left. At that point you'll see a wide grassy landing field on the bank and a rock wall on your right. Paddle up Aarons Creek to the right, and if you will find it in a mile or so on the left.
Staunton River State ParkMap
The state park maintains two launching ramps which are accessed from Rt. 344. One is located on the north side of the Dan River and the other is located at the confluence with the Roanoke River.


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a national leadership team in place, led by Former President and Mrs. George Bush
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Audio: "Well the local entity will be called the M. D. Anderson Banner Cancer Center… "
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Audio: "The location of the Cancer Center is going to be at the intersection of…"
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Peter Fine VO: "… US 60 and Higley Road in the East Valley on the northern most piece of land that resides in the town of Gilbert.
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Audio: "We expect the outpatient component, the 120,000 square-foot building, to be started form a construction perspective sometime in 2010 and then to be completed in 2011. And the activities along the way will involve the developing of the medical staff and the recruiting of physicians – all of the leaders from medical directors and the perspective of Clinical Chairman, will come from the M. D. Anderson side, obviously.
And it is going to be a requirement on this campus that all physicians that participate either be present M. D. Anderson physicians. It could be physicians that have previously been trained by M. D. Anderson and have gone somewhere else but now looking to come back into the M. D. Anderson world, or other physicians that will be required to get some additional training on the M. D. Anderson campus in Houston in order to understand their way of delivering care – and then can be participants in this as well.
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Shelby Dietrich and Sarah Kunkel from Chelan High School received national recognition at the Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) National Conference held in Anaheim, CA June 27-30, 2013. Over 8,500 FBLA students from across the country plus Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands competed in 50 different events representing a wide range of activities and the business and leadership development focus of FBLA. Dietrich and Kunkel competed in the Desktop Publishing event and brought home the second place award and cash prize of $500. Their event consisted of a 2 hour production test where they created a poster, brochure/registration form and name badge for a fictional outdoor camp in Hawaii as well as a 1 hour objective test. "I am so incredibly proud of Shelby and Sarah and their accomplishment. Hearing the girls' names being called and seeing them on stage in front of almost 9,000 students, advisors, and guests was truly an indescribable experience," said Shelley Charlton, Chelan High School FBLA Advisor. There has only been one other student in history of Chelan FBLA to place at the National level. Congratulations Shelby and Sarah!
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Boss guide to installing Ruby on Rails
Every once in a while my boss asks me for help getting a Rails project running on his shiny new MacBook Pro. I've made him this guide to make sure he won't waste my time again. It might come in handy for your boss too.
Please note that we assume the machine is running a clean install of Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8).
Install Xcode
Launch the App Store and use it to install Xcode. Start Xcode and follow the directions to complete the installation. Then choose Preferences from the Xcode menu and click the Downloads tab. Install the Command Line Tools.
Grab something to drink and watch your favorite YouTube video. We'll have to wait for this to download before we can continue.
Install Ruby
First, enter this command in the Terminal to make sure the default Xcode location is set:
sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app
We're going to use rbenv to compile and manage Ruby versions. Even when you're planning to use a single version of Ruby, this is still the easiest way to set it up. The rbenv instructions suggest we use Homebrew, so we'll get that first:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew install apple-gcc42
brew install git rbenv rbenv-gemset ruby-build
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
Now quit and then open your Terminal again to make sure your bash profile gets reloaded. For this example we're going to install Ruby 1.9.3:
rbenv install -list
rbenv install 1.9.3-p194
rbenv rehash
Get your Rails app running
It's reasonable to assume your Rails app runs at least version 3 and that you're using Bundler for dependency management. The rbenv gemsets feature allows us to isolate a set of gems specifically for our project. We start by configuring the Ruby version and the name of the gemset for this application (replace "[project-name]" with the directory name of your Rails project):
cd [project-name]
echo "[project-name]" > .rbenv-gemsets
echo "1.9.3-p194" > .rbenv-version
Now make sure everything worked and is in the right place:
which gem
This should return /Users/[your-username]/.rbenv/shims/gem. We're ready to install the dependencies for your Rails app:
gem install bundler
rbenv rehash
hash -r
bundle install
Troubleshooting compilation problems
Compilation might fail when one of the dependencies is using Quartz (i.e. ImageMagick) and the X11 directory isn't in the library load path. The easiest way to fix this is with a symlink:
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Looking for a cute easy way to make wreath for Valentine's Day or just to show your love? Then look no farther.
With a few supplies you can make decorations for your home or to give others as gifts.
Supplies for paper heart wreath
To make paper heart wreaths you will need:
Scrapbook paper (get double sided if you can)
Thin ribbon
Double sided tape
Glue stick
Preparing your paper
Since I was not able to find double side scrapbook paper that I liked we had to make our own.
We first decided which two papers went together. I then had my daughter put glue on the back side of one paper and placed the other paper to the glued side.
We had to wait until it dried before we could move on to the next step.
If you can find double sided paper you like then you will be able to skip this step.
Cut the paper
You will need to cut the paper into 1 inch strips.
If you have a paper cutter handed it makes this step really easy. However, not many of us have a paper cutter handed so here is what you need to do:
Use your ruler to make a mark every inch with your pencil. Once you have the top marked then draw a line down the paper to cut on.
Use your scissors to cut the strips.
Once they are cut you will need to fold the paper strips ion half to make a V shape.
Make hearts
Once you have the strips cut out and folded you will need about 7 of them for one wreath.
You will fold down the tips of the sides to form a heart shape. I used double sided tape in between the tips and after I formed the heart shape I used regular tape to wrap around the outside to make sure they were secure.
Attach the ribbon
You will need to attach a strip of ribbon to two of those hearts. This needs to be done while making the heart shapes.
Cut a piece of ribbon as long or short as you desire.
I placed double sided tape to the tip of both ends then folded them to make the heart shape. I placed the ribbon in between the tips with tape, then I wrapped regular tape around the outside to make sure it was secure. Then I attached the other end of the ribbon to another heart in the same fashion.
Attach the hearts
Now it is time to attach the hearts together to make your wreath.
I placed a piece of double sided tape near the point of the heart and took another heart and stuck them together. Once I had the two hearts together I used a piece of regular tape to wrap around the two hearts to make sure it was secure.
Continue this until all of the hearts are attached together.
You will want one heart between the hearts with the ribbon.
Display your wreath
Now you are done and your paper heart wreath is ready for display or ready to be given away. We made a handful of these paper heart wreaths and displayed a couple of them around our house and gave the rest away as gifts.
Your hearts can be as wide or thin as you like depending on how you shape the hearts when making them.
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College Hockey:Penn State gets four unanswered to upend Oklahoma in exhibition play
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State scored four unanswered goals to come back and defeat longtime ACHA rival Oklahoma 4-1 on Friday at the Greenberg Ice Pavilion in exhibition play.
The Sooners were not intimidated early on, outshooting the Nittany Lions 14-12 in the first period and generating high-quality scoring chances on P.J. Musico's net. The sophomore netminder was strong throughout, tallying 31 saves in his first start since Jan. 15.
At the other end, Oklahoma goalie Colin Fernandes was solid, stopping a dozen shots, including a beautiful spread-eagle save on Eric Steinour, who picked up a rebound in the left circle and could not elevate the puck over the diving Sooner netminder.
As they continued to up the ante in offensive zone pressure in the period's waning moments, the Sooners cracked the stalemate.
Augie Hoffmann feathered a perfect pass from his left point position to Jordan Greenberg at the right post. Greenberg popped the puck past Musico to give the Sooners the 1-0 lead at 19:09, a margin they carried into the intermission.
The Nittany Lions responded to a first period that did not meet team objectives.
At 11:06 of the middle frame, Michael Longo picked up a puck off a kick pass from Jacob Friedman and roofed it glove side past Fernandes to tie the game 1-1.
Sparked on by their energy line, the Nittany Lions quickly vaulted to the lead.
After the puck careened to the left circle, Mark Yanis pinched from his blue line spot to snap it over Fernandes' arm to give Penn State a 2-1 lead at 16:38.
Penn State coach Guy Gadowsky continued to speak highly of his freshman defenseman.
"[Yanis'] goal was a big-time goal for us," said Gadowsky. "He's been vocal and shown a lot of leadership for a young guy."
Penn State wasted no time adding insurance tallies in the third.
Kenny Brooks got to a puck in the right-wing corner, turned, and flung the puck into the crease and underneath Fernandes to make it 3-1 just 36 seconds into the period.
Taylor Holstrom rounded out the scoring on the power play, going top shelf past a sliding Fernandes at 5:32 of the period to bring the game to its 4-1 final.
Oklahoma coach Peter Arvanitis commended his team's play through the first half of action, but frankly admitted his team's lapses cost them against an NCAA opponent.
"We sort of swayed off our game plan," said Arvanitis. "When you do that against a good team, you pay the price."
The contest had extra meaning for Sooner forward Bryce Johnson, a transfer from Penn State who played for the Nittany Lions' ACHA club team in 2011-2012 and the Nittany Lions; NCAA team from September to December. He picked up a minor penalty for elbowing while turning three shots on goal in the loss.
The two teams meet once again on Saturday in the Greenberg Ice Pavilion. It marks the last game Penn State will play inside the Pavilion before making the jump to Pegula Ice Arena in October of 2013.
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Smart car tipping is the latest prank to trend on the streets of our cities. The eco-friendly vehicles have unique advantages, but their light weight is being targeted by vandals who are flipping the tiny cars over or up on their sides.
In San Francisco, "vandals flipped over a handful of miniature Smart cars parked in two typically quiet San Francisco neighborhoods on Monday," says a report from Reuters on April 8.
San Francisco police officer Gordon Shyy said the Smart car's small size makes them easily movable by a group of individuals. At least four Smart cars have been flipped over in the Bay area recently.
"These cars are quite small," Shyy said. "If it was a full size vehicle, then it would be difficult (to tip) even with a large group."
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So-called "Smart tipping" became an issue several years ago in Canada and Amsterdam, where pranksters would lift the two-seaters and plop them onto their sides or dump them into canals over a series of months in 2009, auto blogs and other media reported at the time.
Police have yet to make any arrests. Witnesses say they spotted a "group of 6 to 8 young men, all in black hoodies" flip a Smart car in the upscale Bernal Heights neighborhood this week.
Shelley Gallivan was watching a Smart car for her friend who lives in Ohio. The small white car was tipped on its side. Gallivan wonders if the Smart car targeting is just a mindless prank, or if the vandals are lashing out against something more.
"It's a bummer. I'm sure hoping it's just a prank and not those who are trying to make a bigger statement in regards to the gentrification in the city," Gallivan said.
All of the vehicles had shattered windows and body damage as a result of being flipped up and over. Police say the culprits will face felony vandalism charges.