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To understand her son's birth defect, a mother makes an emotional and scientific journey
Katherine E. Willmore
Just over two years ago, I had my first child, Max. My entire pregnancy was magically boring. Both baby and I were in perfect health—until the last month, when we learned that Max was breech. No big deal, my husband Eric and I figured. We'd just get in touch with the local doctor who is known for his ability to "spin" babies—to turn them so that they are facing downward toward the birth canal. Then I got a call from my midwife. My most recent ultrasound had revealed some problems; I had to have more tests right away.
At the hospital, the doctor told me that my amniotic fluid was extremely low and that Max would have to make his debut a little early. We were unable to turn Max into position, and my hopes of natural childbirth were dashed. I was scheduled to get a Caesarean section in two days. Not sure how to prepare, my husband and I spent the evening before the arrival of our first child doing our taxes and then celebrating with sushi (just veggie rolls for me).
The very idea of a C-section freaked me out. Needles make me weak in the knees, and the thought of being awake while a doctor made a large cut in my abdomen didn't sit well with me. Luckily, I was so excited about meeting our baby that I could push my fears aside. And the operation went well. Max came out shivering and crying and, in the eyes of his parents at least, absolutely beautiful. My husband, Max and the midwife left the operating room while the doctors closed me up. As I was wheeled back into our room, my midwife came to my side. "Max has a cleft palate," she said. This would be shocking news for anyone. But the kicker is that, as part of my Ph.D. thesis, I had conducted research on cleft palate. My eloquent response was, "You're shittin' me." As it turns out, though, people don't joke about developmental disorders in newborns.
My initial shock shifted, over the first few days of Max's life, to oppressive guilt. Mixed in with these emotions were feelings of grief. Even in the moment, I could feel that this grief was over-the-top—we had been spared many other, more serious problems—so I did my best to hide the feelings from others and from myself. Throughout the pregnancy we had wondered about the usual things. Is it a boy or a girl? Will he be tall like his dad or short like me? Will he be colicky? In fact, the ills of a colicky newborn were the only negative thoughts I allowed myself. So when I learned that Max had a cleft palate, I mourned the loss of the "perfect" baby I had naively expected. But my overriding emotion was worry, a constant, niggling fear that something horrible would happen to Max because of the cleft. Will he be able to feed okay? Can he breathe all right? Are there other developmental problems that we're unaware of? We spent the first few months just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
As it turns out, we've been very fortunate. Max is thriving and there have been no unforeseen problems. Two days before his first birthday he had surgery to repair his cleft, and the entire ordeal went swimmingly. The doctors did an amazing job, and one would never guess that Max once had a problem with his palate. Still, I often find myself wondering, what are the odds that someone who has done research on a disorder would have a child afflicted with that disorder?
Now that the worry has subsided, the tears have dried, and the guilt has been sufficiently suppressed, I'm able to look at Max's developmental mishap through scientist-colored glasses. I'd forgotten how fascinating the intricacies of development can be. Considering the wild, choreographed steps required for proper facial development, I find it surprising that there aren't more missteps.
The variety of possible facial clefts is mind boggling. A child can be born with a cleft lip, a cleft palate or both. I discovered soon after Max's birth that when most people hear "cleft," they seem to imagine only a cleft lip (what was once more commonly called a harelip), and particularly one that involves a large, gaping hole. Before Max's surgery, when I told people that he had a cleft palate, the response was a nearly universal "You would never know." This was a comfort—because we weren't usually dangling our kid upside down for people to see inside his mouth, his cleft was not normally on display.
A cleft lip is characterized, as the name suggests, by a separation of the upper lip. This can be a small groove in the upper lip, or a large gap that extends from the nostril through the lip and the bone of the upper jaw where the two front teeth are housed. Depending on the severity of the cleft, the infant's ability to suckle may be impaired, and speech and dental complications may arise.
Cleft palate, on the other hand, involves a gap in the roof of the mouth. To understand where a cleft lip ends and a cleft palate begins, feel the roof of your mouth with your tongue. Just behind your front teeth there is a small ridge. This marks approximately where the primary palate, found at the front of the mouth, meets with the secondary palate, found at the back of the mouth. When a cleft lip affects the bone of the upper jaw, it extends only as far as this ridge and disrupts only the primary palate. In contrast, a cleft palate affects only the secondary palate, behind the ridge. It can extend from the uvula (the dangly thing at the back of your mouth) all the way to this ridge; Max had this type of cleft. It can involve just a small cleft in the uvula, a small slit along the middle of the palate, or a gap that extends the entire width and depth of the mouth. In all cases, a cleft palate disrupts the usual separation between the mouth and the nasal passages. The result is an inability to suckle, as well as problems with speech. More entertaining (or distressing, depending on your point of view) consequences are extreme snoring and the ability to squeeze food through your nose—a fine party trick.
To add to the complexity, the different clefts can mix and match like sweater-set coordinates. The seemingly endless combinations can lead to the impression that facial clefts occur randomly. In fact, there are few structures involved in facial clefting, and with an understanding of the development of the face, the variety becomes predictable.
Facial development for a human embryo begins early in the fourth week of development, when five facial prominences appear around the area that will become the mouth. These swellings of embryonic tissues act as growth centers of the face. I like to think of them as blobs of Play-Doh—each a pliable mass that can be pushed and pulled into a variety of shapes. Above the future mouth are two maxillary prominences, which form the upper jaw and the cheek regions of the face. Sandwiched between them is the frontonasal prominence, which forms the forehead and nose. Below the opening of the future mouth lie the paired mandibular prominences that will fuse to form the lower jaw.
The first parts of the face to develop are the lower lip and jaw, which are essentially formed by the tenth week of development. The two mandibular prominences grow toward each other until they meet at what will be the center of the chin and lower lip, at which point they fuse. Our nostrils, which begin to develop at the end of the fourth week, start off as paired, oval-shaped thickenings of the frontonasal prominence, called nasal placodes. The outer margins of the placodes grow faster than the insides do. To visualize this, imagine an inflatable swimming pool. As you blow air into the pool, the sides rise as they take on most of the air, with very little air going to the bottom of the pool. Similarly, the fast growth of the outer margins of our nasal placodes forms the sides of our nostrils.
Meanwhile, the maxillary prominences are growing rapidly. They push against the nasal portion of the frontonasal prominence, causing the primitive nostrils to move closer to each other. At the end of the sixth week, the maxillary prominences start to fuse with the outer parts of the nostrils, joining the cheek regions with the sides of the nose. Then they ooze underneath the frontonasal prominence and finally meet at the midline underneath the primitive nose. Between the seventh and tenth weeks, the middle portions of the two nostrils fuse with each other and with the maxillary prominences below. These fusion events form separate nostrils with a single septum between, creating continuity between the nose, cheeks, upper jaw and lip.
Palate development takes place between the sixth and twelfth weeks, but the period from the end of the sixth week to the beginning of the ninth is most critical. The primary palate, located at the front of the mouth, begins to develop early in the sixth week. When the nostrils fuse together to form a single septum in the middle, a portion of the frontonasal prominence gets squished downwards. This portion, which now lies below the nose and between the maxillary prominences, is called the intermaxillary segment. The little divot between your nose and mouth, called the philtrum, is part of this structure, as is the primary palate, which includes the bone that houses your upper two front teeth.
Development of the secondary palate begins around the same time, but it is a more complicated process. Initially, the tissue that will form the secondary palate hangs vertically from each maxillary prominence, on either side of the tongue. These dangling bits of tissue are called the palatal shelves. As the lower jaw elongates with growth, the tongue is able to move forward and flatten so that it lies below the palatal shelves. Then, during the seventh and eighth weeks, one of the most incredible developmental events occurs: Over just a few hours, the palatal shelves actually elevate from a vertical to a horizontal position. Once the shelves are in place, they continue to grow until they meet in the middle of what will become the roof of the mouth, where they fuse with each other and with the primary palate in front.
All these acts of fusion require timed coordination of cell movement, cell death and cell growth. To understand the process, it may be easier to think of what it would look like for a part of the body that we can see. Imagine that your index and middle fingers are going to fuse along their sides. First, the skin that lies between them must break down. The cells that make up this skin die, leaving the tissue within each finger free to intermingle. The tissue of each finger then grows toward and into that of the other. Finally, skin grows over the site of fusion, creating one large finger. This scenario may read like science fiction, but the essential processes themselves are what create our very real-world faces, fusing the different elements of the palate and the rest of our facial structures.
Understanding facial development reveals why facial clefts vary so widely: Clefts occur where fusion is disrupted. Failure of one of the maxillary prominences to fuse with the intermaxillary segment, for example, causes a unilateral cleft lip; failure of both to fuse results in a bilateral cleft lip. Failure of the palatal shelves to elevate creates a cleft secondary palate, like the one our son had, but has no effect on the primary palate or lips. In other cases, one shelf elevates and the other remains vertical, leading to a unilateral cleft palate. And in others, both shelves elevate but do not grow enough to meet at the midline, causing a somewhat less severe cleft. Even if the shelves do elevate properly, failure of the skin between them to break down can disrupt the fusion process, creating a cleft that might only become noticeable when the child starts to speak.
What remains unknown are the factors that cause fusion failure in the first place. Syndromic clefts arise as part of a syndrome in which other structures are also disrupted. More than 400 syndromes that involve facial clefting have been reported. There is often a clear association between the syndrome and specific genes, but the full role that most genes play is not usually known. And the source of the problem is often not the genes associated with the palate. Rather, the mutated genes encode generic developmental processes that help build a variety of structures, including our lungs, teeth, hair and limbs, along with the palate. The generic nature of these processes is what links the often disparate symptoms associated with craniofacial disorders such as Apert syndrome, Crouzon syndrome, Treacher-Collins syndrome and velocardiofacial syndrome. And the same mutation can affect people differently, depending on the rest of the genome and their environmental circumstances. One mutation could be responsible for a minor divot in the top of the upper lip in one individual and a complete bilateral cleft lip in another. Scientists are working to learn how these genes interact with the rest of the genome and with the environment, but current understanding of such interactions is still poor.
At least with syndromic clefts we have a starting point in the search for causes. But the majority of facial clefts appear on their own, with no other symptoms and no known associated mutations. These isolated clefts make up approximately 70 percent of cleft-lip cases and 50 percent of cleft-palate cases. Although our understanding of the mechanics of face and palate development is strong, the large number of factors that contribute to development, and the even greater number of interactions between these factors, keep the underlying cause of most cleft cases a mystery.
Given the coordination of so many complex processes required for proper development, I marvel that most children are born without birth defects. I realize how fortunate our family is that Max was born with just a cleft palate. And I have learned that the odds of having a child with cleft palate are not that low: About every two and a half minutes, somewhere in the world a child is born with a facial cleft.
Revisiting the scientific literature on facial clefting has been a cathartic experience for me. Looking at Max's cleft from a biological perspective forced me to be objective and confirmed what my family, friends and health practitioners had been telling me. There was no way to predict that Max would have a cleft palate, it wasn't my fault, and there is no reason to fear having another child. The veil of guilt has lifted a little further—that is, until I find myself laughing at old photographs of Max in his high chair with mashed peas streaming out of his nose.
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Michael Douglas' son has been placed in solitary confinement.
The 68-year-old Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps actor's eldest son Cameron - who is serving a 10-year sentence for drug dealing - was moved to an isolated cell earlier this month after failing a drug test at the federal prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania.
A prison source told the New York Post's Page Six that the 34-year-old budding actor's friend and tattoo artist Billy Trent was also immediately sent to solitary confinement after being found with an illicit substance.
It is not yet known whether Cameron will face additional jail time for failing the test or how long he will be kept in isolation.
His father - who is married to Catherine Zeta-Jones - attended his court hearing last month as he appealed against the 54 extra months of prison time that were added to his current five-year sentence for narcotics distribution.
Cameron's attempt to shorten his sentence came days after he was attacked in prison, where he suffered a broken leg and finger.
A bounty of $100 was reportedly put on the 34-year-old actor by a New York mobster as payback for telling police who his drug suppliers were.
The troubled star was only supposed to serve five years instead of 10 after doing a deal with prosecutors, but earned an extra four-and-a-half years for smuggling heroin and a prescription narcotic during his stay at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre.
Cameron - whose mother is Michael's ex-wife Diandra Morrell Douglas - is currently not eligible for release until 2018.
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Discussion in 'BUILDS' started by axsepul, Dec 2, 2011.
Looks great. Can't wait to see it done.
thanks, i want to get this done but it has taken too much time. fenders and fork still need a lot of work
Fork should be getting the stencils today
Waiting to get the clear coat now!
made a plate for the bike
Its been raining a lot for the last few days so I haven't had the time to shoot the clear coat. Prep work continues on fenders and rack. I did score a rear drop stand and it should be here by saturday.
clear coat is done
drop stand got here today, waiting on the fender clip
Looks great! :wink:
Thanks. Working on the truss rods, fender and rack. Still waiting on the fender clip. Will try to get this done by next week.
got the fender clip today
looks great
rack is painte and waiting for clear coat
handlebar is painted and ready
fender braces are ready
after analyzing the fender stencils i realized that it was better to make them backwards
front fender
get the backward stencil
rear fender
i thought about doing a sticker for the chainguard but i have not made my mind yet.
i think i might be able to start putting it together tomorrow
Cool bike... and from my hometown!
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Your stencils look amazing. What's the material you made them from and where can you buy it?
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i started to work with a special stencil material but i ran out. its too expensive. then i ended using regular vinyl. your local sign shop might have it but then you will need to have some sign shop cut them up. i created everything since i make stencils and vinyl decals :mrgreen:
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Sweet! 8) That stencil work looks awesome :wink:
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Thanks man. Your stencils inspired me to bother a local vandal/tagger. He showed me how to make stencils with masking tape and parchment paper. So we'll see how it goes.
Your bike is looking sweet!
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thanks. as soon as i get more stencil material i'll put it up for sale
super! let us know what you do
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Would you eat a horse?
Local owners could sell to proposed New Mexico slaughterhouse
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. - Area horse owners who have struggled to feed their animals because of high hay prices may soon face a difficult option -- selling horses in New Mexico to be slaughtered as food for people.
On Jan. 1, the first U.S. slaughterhouse legally allowed to process horse meat since 2007 is scheduled to open in Roswell, N.M. Similar businesses are attempting to open in Iowa and Missouri.
The potential return of horse-slaughtering plants is influenced by the demand for horse meat in countries such as Europe, Japan and Mexico. According to experts, immigrants from those countries also have a taste for the meat, and horses are often bought at actions and illegally sold to Canada and Mexico.
Hilary Wood, director of the Front Range Equine Rescue, said the slaughterhouse would buy directly from horse owners or from third parties known as "kill buyers" who would purchase the animals and transport them to Roswell.
During the past several years, the high cost of hay has led horse owners to starve or abandon their animals. Wood said there's not a surplus of horses in Colorado -- only a surplus of irresponsible owners who seek to escape the responsibility and expense of caring for horses.
Wood said slaughtering horses for meat is inhumane because the animals cannot be safely transported, processed or consumed as cattle are.
"Usually what you find is horses are transported for days on end, not given food and water and are often injured or dead when they arrive at the plant," she said. "Slaughtering is a very terrifying experience for them because they're fearful and get afraid in new situations, and they have physiological difference from cattle."
Wood said horses traditionally haven't been raised as food in the U.S. and are given medicines that aren't safe for people to eat and can contaminate waterways near slaughterhouses.
However, Brett Axton, a hunter and former horse owner in Colorado Springs, disagrees that slaughtering horses is inhumane.
"It's better to have a horse used for meat than have it starve to death in the middle of a prairie where someone can't afford to feed it," he said. "I've eaten horse meat. It's not bad. There's nothing wrong with it. If that plant opens, you're going to see a lot of people take their horses (there)."
Wood said horses are stolen more often when slaughterhouses are in operation.
On Thursday, New Mexico Attorney General Gary King filed suit in state district court to stop the opening of the slaughterhouse. He cited potential violations of state laws related to food safety, water quality and unfair business practices.
Blair Dunn, an attorney representing the plant, said the plant's owner still intendss to open as scheduled.
Previous slaughtering plants, two in Texas and one in Illinois, closed in 2007. Experts said at the time, 10 percent of the horse meat was used to feed carnivores at zoos, and the rest was shipped overseas for human consumption.
Wood said horse owners may legally slaughter and eat their own horses, but may not slaughter and distribute horse meat to other people without the approval of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
No federal law banning the overall slaughter of horses for human consumption exists. The House of Representatives in 2006 passed a bill to that effect, but the Senate version of the bill failed in committee. The bills were reintroduced in 2007 and 2011 but not voted on.


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Furious North Queensland coach Neil Henry has accused NRL referees of not being up to the standard the competition deserves after his side went down 22-12 to premiers Manly in Friday's semi-final at Allianz Stadium.
With the scores locked at 12-12, the Sea Eagles scored two contentious second-half tries to win the game and book a clash with the Storm in Melbourne next Friday for a place in the grand final.
Henry and his skipper Johnathan Thurston were livid after the game, following the decisions to award efforts by Jorge Taufua and Michael Oldfield.
Both were given the benefit-of-the-doubt by video referees Paul Simpkins and Steve Clark, with the Cowboys claiming Taufua made a double movement before touching down.
But the decision to give Oldfield's try left the visitors feeling robbed after Kieran Foran appeared to knock the ball forward from a Daly Cherry-Evans kick, allowing Jamie Lyon to bundle the ball towards Oldfield.
"The players in this competition have taken the game to the next level," Henry said.
"There is no question as the quality of our product, but we're not keeping pace in the officiating.
"Our season hung on a couple of decisions and I don't care if you put five in the video box.
"I am not saying they are biased, they are incompetent."
Thurston said he was angered by the loss and claimed during the game to referee Shayne Hayne that his side had: "Twice been robbed."
"Those decisions, they can't justify them, I am just gutted by them," Thurston said after the match.
Manly coach Geoff Toovey admitted his side got the rub of the green in the second half and sympathised with Henry.
However, he was equally unhappy with the decision that went against his side for the Cowboys' second try, claiming Taufua was stripped of the ball, with referee Shayne Hayne penalising the winger for a knock-on.
He insisted Manly deserved the win and said Foran had told him he didn't touch ball forward in the lead-up to Oldfield's try.
"I saw them as benefit-of-the-doubt tries, but I thought it would have not been awarded if was not a knock-on," Toovey said.
"There's so much coverage with all the cameras out there but the blokes in the middle have to make the calls. Maybe they can do something about that."
"Neil will be frustrated and I feel for him."
Kiwi international Foran insisted he didn't touch the ball as he jumped up with Thurston in the build up to the fourth try and said he was confident it would be awarded.
"I jumped up for it and Thurston kind of went for it at the same time, I didn't feel my hand touch it so he must have got a hand to it," Foran said.
"I was reasonably confident, provided Killer (Jamie Lyon) didn't have a hand on him when he flicked the ball."
Manly's clash with the Storm next weekend will be a rematch of the 2007 and 2008 grand finals and Toovey is looking forward to the challenge of facing an old foe.
"We'll head down there Friday, and we'll be ready for it," he said.


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I voted. Annoyed that my voting station didn't give out "I voted" stickers. Bastards. My first time voting (I was 17 1/2 in 96) and I don't even get the damn sticker. :-)
I voted. Annoyed that my voting station didn't give out "I voted" stickers. Bastards. My first time voting (I was 17 1/2 in 96) and I don't even get the damn sticker. :-)
KDE2 is nice.
Last week for this job is next week. Fun.
explodingdog kicks ass.
aaronl: When I used to trick-or-treat, what determined us going to houses or not was if they had some sort of halloween-looking stuff out in front - pumpkin, ghosts, cobwebs, whatever. We generally knew who did not celebrate halloween and did not 'threaten' people to give us candy. Certainly things may be different where you are, but there's more to halloween than a bunch of kids going around demanding candy... it's fun to just let loose, use your imagination, and relax every now and then. If you don't want people coming to your door, make it plain to the parents of said children that you do not celebrate halloween and wish to be left alone...or put a sign on your door saying 'No candy, go elsewhere' or whatnot. If you're in any kind of a decent neighborhood, they should respect your wishes.
Gave my two weeks notice to Winstar today. It sucks
to have to leave such a great set of coworkers...but the
department they were moving me to just wasn't what I wanted.
Now I have to give back all the toys I've had "signed out" for the past year...ah well.
November 10th will be my last day. On November 13th, I begin work as a Unix Admin and programmer for Mitretek. Should be fun.
Got a job offer from a company I interviewed with last
Monday. Should get the offer letter tomorrow (They are
FedEx'ing it overnight). Should be good <tm>.
Details to follow.
Things do not look good on the work front. Seems like
everyone I know has been having job issues...now I've been
bitten, too.
So now it's time to start start looking.
More to follow.
John Terpstra of SAMBA fame is coming to speak at my department (the Linux geeks :) today. Ueberspiffy.
*microphone feedback*
If I vanish before October 2001, it's because planning a wedding in the Washington DC area either a) killed me or b) drove me insane.
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Fear my grabs for power. Mowhahaha.
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UTSA places in top 25 HUB programs, staff receive awards
By Tim Brownlee
Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(Dec. 1, 2005)--Once again, UTSA is among the top 25 Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) programs in the state. UTSA joins two other University of Texas institutions in the top 25: UT Brownsville (26.9 percent HUB purchases) and UT El Paso (25.5 percent HUB purchases).
More than $10.8 million was expended at UTSA in 2005 on purchases from HUB vendors, which are minority- and women-owned businesses. HUB purchases accounted for 25.3 percent of total eligible UTSA purchases.
HUB purchases at UTSA increased from approximately $6.5 million (21.15 percent of total state purchases) in 2004. UTSA purchases increased 66 percent in 2005.
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"This year, the HUB program will recognize individuals and departments that have made significant contributions to the HUB program," said Kerry Kennedy, UTSA vice president for business affairs. "Yolanda Miller, the UTSA HUB coordinator, continues to work hard to identify the vendors, welcome them, help them through our procurement processes and encourage programs that promote HUB use."
UTSA's HUB Staff Coordinating Group meets quarterly to discuss HUB program activities. Coordinating group members for fiscal year 2005-2006 are Pamela Bacon, Brenda Claiborne, David Jaffe, Ana Longoria, Deborah Perez, Joel Saegert, Robert Dickens, Powell Trotti, Ysabel Trinidad, Fletcher Parks, Tracy Picha, Terri Vasquez, Charlotte Colbert, Mansour El-Kikhia, Richard Gambitta, Susan Whitley, Venetta Williams, Lacy Hampton and Yolanda Miller.
University staff members and departments that have promoted the HUB program were honored at a Nov. 30 ceremony. UTSA President Ricardo Romo, who was the keynote speaker, congratulated the honorees for being advocates of the program.
HUB Program Advocate awards went to Stefanie Barlow, administrative associate I, Office of the Vice President for University Advancement; Maria Espericueta, senior administrative associate, Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President; Bernie Leiter, senior buyer, Office of Materials Management; Juan Macias, buyer II, Office of Materials Management; Jeanette Portillo, buyer II, Office of Materials Management; Michelle Phillips, senior administrative associate, Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President; Joni Shaum, senior administrative associate, Office of University Communications; Candy Schlueter, administrative associate II, Office of the Vice President for Business Affairs; Frank Salazar, director of extended education and John White, executive director of housing and residential life.
Additionally, HUB Department Advocate awards were presented to representatives of Facilities Services, University Publications and Technology Support Services.
The top 5 Texas agencies in HUB utilization for 2005 are: Texas A&M University ($3.2 million, 61.2 percent), Texas Department of Insurance ($2.7 million, 46.8 percent), University of Houston - Clear Lake ($6.2 million, 40.2 percent), Texas Woman's University ($15.1 million, 39.5 percent) and Tarleton State University ($6.1 million, 39.4 percent).
For more information, contact Pamela Bacon at (210) 458-4201.


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Both Badger hockey teams lose Friday
Men at Coliseum, Women at WCHA Final Face-off
MADISON - The Badger men's hockey team returned to the Alliant Energy Center Coliseum Friday night and came away with a 4-2 defeat at the hands of St. Cloud State.
With the game tied at 2 in the third period, St. Cloud's Nick Jensen skated down the right side and fired a shot from a tough angle at the goal line that got past Badger goaltender Joel Rumpel for the game winner.
Joseph LaBate and Tyler Barnes scored the goals for Wisconsin.
In Minneapolis, North Dakota defeated the Badger women's hockey team 2-1 in the semifinals of the WCHA Final Face-Off.
North Dakota took a 2-nothing lead on goals by Ashley Furia and Jocelyn Lamoreaux.
Wisconsin's only goal came with 3:43 remaining in the third period when Erika Sowchuk scored on a pass from Lauren Unser.
Wisconsin's season record is now 23-10-2 and the Badgers hope for and NCAA tournament at large bid when the selections are released Sunday afternoon.


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From photographic documentation of the Japanese Gutai artists' early actions, it is quite clear that Shiraga Kazuo was the most enterprising, even macho, of the pack. Challenging the Mud (1955), in which the artist, dressed only in a pair of boxers, jumped on top of a mud pile and kicked, punched, and wrestled with it, remains an iconic Gutai work. A practice that has earned him more enduring recognition, however, is his "foot painting," which he had begun shortly before joining Gutai in 1955. To create a piece such as Untitled (1959) in the Walker Art Center's collection, he would swing back and forth from a rope attached to the ceiling and push paint with his feet across canvas or paper laid on the floor. The artist's performative physicality exemplifies, with a powerfully dramatic flair, the Gutai group's manifest practice of translating action into painting.
Michel Tapié, the French critic who formulated the theory of art autre (also known as Art Informel) in relation to postwar gestural painting, was introduced to Gutai early on and became the conduit between the Japanese avant-garde and the Western art world. When Tapié arrived in Japan in 1957 with his compatriot Georges Mathieu, a practitioner of rather histrionic action painting and no stranger to swaggering self-promotion, the latter allegedly said: "That man named Shiraga, I hear, paints with his feet. Why does he paint with feet when he's got hands? He should cut his hands off then!"1 As soon as they encountered one of Shiraga's paintings, however, both Tapié and Mathieu became avowed backers of their Japanese contemporary's work.
Shiraga's method of painting on a horizontal surface invites an obvious comparison with Jackson Pollock's "dancing" and "dripping" over a canvas laid on the floor, which was famously captured in Hans Namuth's 1950 documentary film and photographs. However, even when hung on the wall as a painting, Shiraga's work denies the sublimation of base materiality into pure opticality that one experiences in Pollock's.2 The thick accumulation of pushed paint and the registration of splashes in Shiraga's paintings pulsate with an uncontainable preconscious—perhaps even preperceptual—energy. The artist, who became an ordained Buddhist monk in 1971, has commented numerous times on the calligraphy of Nantembo, the early twentieth-century Zen monk and artist known for his energetic brushwork. By linking his art to another tradition in which horizontal mark-making is practiced for the explicit purpose of self-awakening, Shiraga intimates that his gesture is able to elevate matter to a level beyond the optical, perhaps to that of the spiritual sublime.
As recalled by Murakami Saburo in "Gutai-teki na hanashi" (Concrete Talk: Interview with Murakami and Shiraga Kazuo), in Gutai I•II•III (Ashiya, Japan: Ashiya City Culture Foundation, 1994), 211. Trans. Doryun Chong. ↩
For an in-depth discussion of horizontality and the idea of sublimation in painting, see Rosalind Krauss in The Optical Unconscious (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1993), 242–308. ↩


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#21 Tue 10 Aug 10 3:27pm
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I was raised that way as well, I'm just still rebelling is all.
#22 Tue 10 Aug 10 3:51pm
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Once when my daughter was looking for knobs for her kitchen cabinets, she directed me to a website...it was either myknobs or yourknobs.com or something. Anyway, when I went to what I thought was the correct one, it was a po*&% site. I know, totally off the subject.
#23 Tue 10 Aug 10 4:24pm
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Thats the excuse they all give........
#24 Tue 10 Aug 10 6:14pm
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nanstertoo...don't worry when ever the question of .."Knob of butter" or similar is asked it always seems to go off topic !
#25 Thu 28 Feb 13 10:27am
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A US stick of butter is 8 tablespoons, the wrapping is marked in 1 tablespoon segments, the total is 1/4 pound, or 1/2 cup. There are 4 sticks in a 1 pound package.
#26 Fri 01 Mar 13 9:09am
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Just for your information:
1 tical = 15 gms
4 tical = 1 tamleung
20 tamleung = 1 chang
50 chang = 1 hap
There you go.........
In my humble opinion, a "pat" of butter is around 1 tical, or thereabouts, and a knob is around 1 tamleung.
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I've heard various stories about people being fined etc. for using imperial measure in shops, but I don't buy it. As far as I know, the rule is that the prices MUST be displayed in metric - they can also be displayed in Imperial alongside, but the metric price must be there. Which is fair - otherwise you can't compare prices properly. My butcher happily sells pounds of mince to me - his scales work in both metric and Imperial. After all, it's not like Imperial is an approximate measure or something - there's an established conversion rate.
The one area you will get in trouble in the UK is if you try to sell beer in metric measure (on-sales, I mean, not off-sales). The licensing system is based on pints, and I don't think you're even allowed to display prices in litres. I'm sure there was one pub that got in bother for this, selling half-litres of Continental beers. It's just not allowed.
Spirit measures are in metric, though. Strange.
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#28 Tue 05 Mar 13 8:49pm
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Fabric is one commodity that is allowed to be sold as either metric or imperial measurements..........but there are rules........if the retailer acquired the fabric from Europe it must be sold in metres, if it is imported from anywhere that sells in imperial (ie America) then it can be sold in yards.
Most of my patterns etc are in yards, most of my fabrics are bought in yards too........I am old-fashioned, I prefer imperial. I am a happy dinosaur!!!
#29 Tue 05 Mar 13 9:02pm
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Pre-made curtains in the uk are labelled in inches and centimetres???
Luckily I can work in either or both..so a 2.4Metre length of 2x2 is just long enough...
#30 Tue 05 Mar 13 9:37pm
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This thread started in 2007. Talk about longevity. Reminds me of a recipe I recently came across that called for a "pat" of butter. Since it was to grease a pan prior to searing, I just used what was required.


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Patriot Perspective: Eagle View starts Backpack Program
Helping students have the best chance to be successful learners is the first priority for us in school. This happens in many ways – having great teachers and staff, providing the right tools (computers, books, etc.) and taking care of the social and emotional needs of our students.
At Eagle View we understand how important it is for students to be well fed and rested in order to reach their full potential. A program we are starting this year is a Backpack Program where backpacks of food will be provided every two weeks to students who could use a nutritional boost through the weekend.
It is our hope that this Backpack Program will help students come to school on Monday well fed and ready to learn. There are other benefits we are already seeing and that I have experienced in a previous district that implemented this program.
The impact on our learning community is profound not only for those students who get the food, but on our community as we come together to support all. As we work together to get donations and pack the backpacks we are focused on the right mission of our school — helping ALL students be successful.
We have been truly amazed at the level of support from our staff and teachers, but also from parents and the business community. Many have stepped forward to offer support of time, money or food. We have sponsors that will provide for a whole month of need for many of the months already.
This outreach from so many stakeholders has provided a wonderful way to connect with all of our communities and families. I can only see this growing and becoming more meaningful as the program takes off.
It has been my mantra that it is our responsibility to provide every opportunity for ALL students to reach their full potential and feel successful, cared for and safe here at Eagle View Elementary School. The Backpack Program is another way for us to do just that. It has and will continue to bring our community together for a common purpose and it invites the greater community outside of school to partner with us to make a difference in so many lives.
If you or your business would like to partner with us by offering your time, money or food, we welcome you to contact us. We will find a way to get you involved in a meaningful way. It doesn't take much to make a difference.
Come and join us in making this an even greater learning community. You can call Dave Endicott or Eileen Nelson at 218-562-6100 if you would like more information.


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Cairo offers many things. It's beauty and ugly are so extreme. We visited 2 spots where belly dancers performed and they couldn't have been more different. One was less touristy than these photographed where about 5 came out separately. Each one was so different. One guy at our table worked for UNICEF and commented on how many of the dancers are Iraqi refugees and some prostitute themselves on the side. This is because they are viewed as second class citizens in Egypt and their job opportunities are few. This along with my trip to a night club called Africana where tourists come in to find local prostitutes (mostly refugees from surrounding countries) left me feeling like I'd lost my innocence as a tourist. Like I had been let in on a secret that was supposed to remain hidden. A truth. I teared up and had to leave early... but it remains with me, causing a desire for action.
But as my pictures share, Cairo has many beautiful things to offer. Both historic and contemporary. But I couldn't leave out the truth as I know it. Behind every beautiful picture lies a hidden truth. This is true in any place in the world, person or society.


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Seems the longer I keep bees, the less I know.
Today I checked on of my hives, and it's population is strong. In fact I found 10 - 12 queen cells in there, but I did not have time to search out the queen today. My question: I have a queen to replace this queen which I think is genetically prone to swarm since this one was a swarm last spring. If I cut out those cells, find the queen, and replace it with a queen I have on hand, is this likely to prevent their swarming or is it too late to prevent it?
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Event design should be well thought-out in advance. Continue branding your event by taking the themes, color scheme and messaging you used in your marketing and translating them into the look of the event. Décor should be appropriate for the type of event, the audience, and fit your budget. All of the design items noted here can be obtained either through your cater (typically at a marked-up price), or you can use our Recommended Vendors page for a listing of suggested providers to contact directly.
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Table linens and napkins can dramtically change the look of an event. The options are limitless, from basic fabrics in every color of the rainbow, to linens with texture and pattern in luxury fabrics. For a pop of color on a small budget, choose neutral colored table linens and a napkin in a bright color.
Floral centerpieces add interest and detail to your tables. Tell your florist what your color scheme is and he/she can coordinate the florals. Continue the pop of color by choosing flowers in the same color family as your napkins for simple yet attractive event design.
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Certainly, a luxury item, but achieve both form and function in an event. Sofas and coffee tables come in various styles, materials and colors and can be used to create cozy lounge areas and fill up unused space at the same time.
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Uplighting creates a wash of color on the walls. Choose one color (like red) or select lighting that changes color throught the night. Pinspots are lights strung from the ceiling on a truss. They create a spotlight affect from above and can be used to draw attention to banquet tables, floral centerpieces, and the speaker on stage. There are many other ways to incorporate lighting into a room. Contact an Audio Visual company for more information.
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After year of no action, council plans to vote on comprehensive plan
The Pequot Lakes City Council plans to vote on adoption of the city's comprehensive plan at its Feb. 5 meeting at city hall.
The council agreed to provide questions about the plan in writing to staff before Jan. 22, and staff will respond in writing before Jan. 29 so questions and answers can be presented in the February council packet.
Work on a new comprehensive plan began about three years ago. However, the council rejected the plan in December 2011 after tabling action on it in June 2011.
Both those actions came on 3-2 votes with current council member Jerry Akerson and former council member Tom Ryan opposed both times.
A four-fifths majority vote is needed to adopt the new plan.
The planning commission contends it answered Akerson's and Ryan's concerns. There's been no action on the plan at the city council level for more than a year.
The city adopted the current comprehensive plan in 2004, when Pequot Lakes was merging with Sibley Township and establishing how that combined entity would operate and how it would react to issues of growth regarding shoreland concerns and environmental protection.
The new plan addresses the need for ongoing infrastructure maintenance with a tax base that is inadequate to sustain all the systems that need to be maintained.
The new plan recognizes three major components for more prosperous growth: reduce the long-term tax burden; streamline the regulatory process; and grow the local market for goods and services.


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Pine River-Backus School Board learns of improved student behavior
Pine River-Backus School Board members learned Monday, Nov. 18, how Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) is improving elementary students' behavior.
PBIS is a system that changes the way teachers prevent negative behavior in the classroom. First, staff define clear expectations for behavior throughout the school using common language. Second, the program focuses on rewarding positive behavior to reinforce those behaviors the teachers like to see. The third step involves informing staff and students about behavior expectations so there is consistency.
Noelle Johnson, Tena Odens and Denise Koring explained the program's unique characteristics. Recognition of positive behaviors through "Tiger tickets" is one characteristic. Helping children to recognize and admit their own negative behavior is another.
"If a child doesn't know how to read, reteach. If a child doesn't know how to swim, reteach, multiply, we get it. But when the child misbehaves, what do we do? Do we teach or do we punish?" asked Johnson, an elementary school teacher. "So, why can't we finish the last sentences automatically as we do the others? Students learn appropriate behavior in the same way a child who doesn't know how to read learns to read — through instruction, practice, feedback and encouragement."
Odens, also a teacher, said students still face consequences for negative behavior, but now reteaching is also used to reinforce the positive behaviors.
This reteaching can include proper handwashing, throwing away trash in proper receptacles and many other behaviors.
Current data is constantly being collected on student behavior so teachers can track changes throughout the year. Graphs presented to the board showed how behavior issues in the school have decreased or changed form. The graphs also showed that most misbehavior occurs in classrooms rather than in hallways or during recess, minor misbehaviors increase from 11:30 a.m. to noon, and kindergarten and sixth grade have the highest instances of misbehavior.
Data show the school has seen positive improvements in student behavior. Instances of physical aggression and defiance have been greatly reduced, and the majority of misbehavior consists of simple, minor disruptions in the classroom.
Pine River-Backus has been implementing this program for three years. Data will be incomplete until the end of the school year, but current data appears positive.
In other business Monday, the board:
• Learned the PR-B School won a runnerup award from the Minnesota Rural Education Association Profiles of Excellence for the school's 2012-13 career day.
• Advised of modifications to be made to several school district policies. These policies pertain to video recording on school buses and video surveillance other than on buses. Modifications to the policies would make employees subject to discipline for negative behavior found on video.
• Approved the removal a policy defining principles for selecting and removing library materials and a policy about warning systems and plans after finding that both policies were already covered in other policies.
• Met representatives of the PR-B Elementary Student Council. Principal Rick Aulie hopes the council will be able to continue sending representatives to the board meetings.
• Heard from local resident Bonnie Lomen who thanked the board and those present for a more respectful board meeting compared to the October meeting.


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Local event promotes healing through art, music, storytelling
The Embracing the Soul Gallery will host "Healing our City Sunday" on September 15, bringing a spirit of art, music, dance and storytelling to downtown Binghamton.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will run from 1 p.m. through to 9 p.m. at the gallery located at 120 Washington Street.
Activities include:
1 p.m. – An open drumming circle and dance, featuring local drummers Rob Wandell and Nate Brown.
3 p.m. - Healing storytelling, featuring Jerry Mirra. An open microphone will offer community members an opportunity to share their stories of healing experiences.
5 – 9 p.m. - An open 'jam' session with keyboardists Gene Cochran and Lee Whitted. The public are invited bring along their instruments and join in the performances.
"Healing our City Sunday" will also showcase local artists in an exhibit of painting, sketches and other artwork. The event is part of the "Healing Our City Through Expressive Arts," which is a joint venture of the School of Education and Human Development at Binghamton University and the Mental Health Association (MHA) of the Southern Tier. The project is funded by a grant from the Marilyn Gaddis Rose and Stephen David Ross University and Community Projects Fund. The fund, which was established in 1998 by Binghamton University faculty members Rose and Ross, provides money for creative and innovative cooperative efforts between the University and local non-profit organizations.
For more information about "Healing our City Sunday," contact Bonnie Winfield at 607-777-6729.


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The word volcano is used to refer to the opening from which molten rock and gas issue from Earth's interior onto the surface, and also to the cone, hill, or mountain built up around the opening by the eruptive products. This slide set depicts ash clouds, fire fountains, lava flows, spatter cones, glowing avalanches, and steam eruptions from 18 volcanoes in 13 countries. Volcano types include strato, cinder cone, basaltic shield, complex, and island-forming. Perhaps no force of nature arouses more awe and wonder than that of a volcanic eruption. Volcanoes can be ruthless destroyers. Primitive people offered sacrifices to stem the tide of such eruptions and many of their legends were centered around volcanic activity. Volcanoes are also benefactors. Volcanic processes have liberated gases of the atmosphere and water in our lakes and oceans from the rocks deep beneath Earth's surface. The fertility of the soil is greatly enhanced by volcanic eruptive products. Land masses such as islands and large sections of continents may owe their existence entirely to volcanic activity. The "volcano" is used to refer to the opening from which molten rock and gas issue from Earth's interior onto the surface, and also to the cone, hill, or mountain built up around the opening by the eruptive products. The molten rock material generated within Earth that feeds volcanoes is called magma and the storage reservoir near the surface is called the magmachamber. Eruptive products include lava (fluid rock material) and pyroclastics or tephra (fragmentary solid or liquid rock material). Tephra includes volcanic ash, lapilli (fragments between 2 and 64 mm), blocks, and bombs. Low viscosity lava can spread great distances from the vent. Higher viscosity produces thicker lava flows that cover less area. Lava may formlava lakes of fluid rock in summit craters or in pit craters on the flanks of shield volcanoes. When the lava issues vertically from a central vent or a fissure in a rhythmic, jet-like eruption, it produces a lava fountain. Pyroclastic (fire-broken) rocks and rock fragments are products of explosive eruptions. These may be ejected more or less vertically, thenfall back to Earth in the form of ash fall deposits. Pyroclastic flows result when the eruptive fragments follow the contours of the volcano and surrounding terrain. They are of three main types: glowing ash clouds, ash flows, and mudflows. A glowing ash cloud (nuee ardente) consists of an avalanche of incandescent volcanic fragments suspended on a cushion of air or expanding volcanic gas. This cloud forms from the collapse of a vertical ash eruption, from a directed blast, or is the result of the disintegration of a lava dome. Temperatures in the glowing cloud can reach 1,000 deg C and velocities of 150 km per hour. Ash flows resemble glowing ash clouds; however, their temperatures are much lower. Mudflows (lahars) consist of solid volcanic rock fragments held in water suspension. Some may be hot, but most occur as cold flows. They may reach speeds of 92 km per hour and extend to distances of several tens of kilometers. Large snow-covered volcanoes that erupt explosively are the principal sources of mud flows. Explosions can give rise to air shock waves and base surges. Air shock waves are generated as a result of the explosive introduction of volcanic ejecta into the atmosphere. A base surge may carry air, water, and solid debris outward from the volcano at the base of the vertical explosion column. Volcanic structures can take many forms. A few of the smaller structures built directly around vents include cinder, spatter, and lava cones. Thick lavas may pile up over their vents to form lava domes. Larger structures produced by low viscosity lava flows include lava plains and gently sloping cones known as a shield volcanoes. A stratovolcano (also known as a composite volcano) is built of successive layers of ash and lava. A volcano may consist of two or more cones side by side and is referred to as compound or complex. Sometimes a violent eruption will partially empty the underground reservoir of magma. The roof of the magma chamber may thenpartially or totally collapse. The resulting caldera may be filled by water. The volcanic structure tells us much about the nature of the eruptions.
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|To Reach a Final End Point.
|Level 10 - Mind Boggling
|Jean Claude Constantin
|European Wood Puzzles, Jean Claude Constantin
|4.92 in x 3.74 in x 2.44 in / 12.5 cm x 9.5 cm x 6.2 cm
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A tricky maze puzzle that will give you hours of fun trying to reach your destination.
This puzzle box opens up when it is solved. The inside of the box measures 4in x 3in x 2in / 10.2cm x 7.6cm x 5.1cm
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Ladies: you spend more time scanning each other's surface areas than you do checking out handsome men, apparently. According to research by a British swimwear company, half of the 2000 women polled said they "enjoy" comparing themselves to other women.
I don't know if "enjoy" is an actual quote or the efforts of an ineffectual media release minion, but what's certain is that common reactions to these sorts of findings can always be found in the form of a Daily Mail reader comment.
In response to the story 'Forget ogling men! We're FAR too busy checking out other women... and hoping they'll have more wrinkles and a bigger bottom than we do, confesses LINDA KELSEY', aptly named 'VisceralRage' responds thusly: "Women are the main ones objectifying women so they should stop having a go at men.
This also proves the continued assertion that women are inherently narcissistic and obsessed with themselves, which is why they are to blame for so many relationships breaking down."
I'm sorry for giving someone who calls themselves VisceralRage and writes to the Daily Mail website a snippet of limelight. That was wrong of me. But it's a shortcut to addressing old assumptions insinuated by 'new research'. I.e., that it's women who objectify themselves and each other, competing and comparing for the bitchy fun of it.
Because yes, women look at women. But every eyeball in the Western world looks at women: that's the deal we're lumped with. And isn't that to do with training - the kind you get as a human on earth, where female beauty is very, very important?
For some women that manifests as 'Is she hotter than me?', no doubt. To claim otherwise would be silly. How else can you explain the secret compulsion that is Stars Without Makeup? (I DON'T KNOW, BUT I CAN'T STOP CLICKING.) As Laura Mulvey says in her famous 1975 essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, the female gaze is also the male gaze, because ladies be looking at other ladies through the eyes of men, sort of. How can they not? Boys, girls, in betweens: we're all on the same pop-culture train.
Equally, though, women looking at other women is often just: 'That is the best handbag that ever lived' or 'I want my hair to look like hers so bad, oh she just caught me staring' or 'Is she wearing that dress I sold on Trademe last week?' Adornment is an art and therefore some ladies are walking works of art, and I for one quite like art.


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Established in 1965, HAWS assists over 6,000 animals and welcomes more than 31,000 human visitors annually. As an "open admissions" shelter we lead the community in animal welfare and assure sanctuary for all animals in need, regardless of age, health or temperament. HAWS is a non-profit, entirely donor-fund organization with an active humane education program, and both wildlife and companion animal rescue services for Waukesha County.
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A Time for Heroes at HAWS
HAWS has been selected as a Wisconsin shelter partner for Companions for Heroes, an organization dedicated to alleviating the psychological suffering of our nation's returning wounded warriors and first responders by facilitating their adoption of shelter animals.
Capitalizing on the strong bond between people and animals, last-chance pets are connected with our nation's heroes, providing a sense of purpose and fulfillment while minimizing stress, depression and feelings of loneliness and isolation through unconditional love and friendship.
"My shelter dog is the sole reason I am here today," notes C4H founder David Sharpe, a U.S. Air Force veteran who was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression eight years after serving. "My dog has allowed me to grow close relationships with my family and friends. I believe other veterans can benefit from the same type of companionship."
Those interested in adoption through the program should contact David Jurado at email@example.com, or log on to CompanionsforHeroes.org for a qualifying application. They are then sent to HAWS to continue the adoption process, through contact Jessica at email@example.com (262-542-8851, x112).
By the way - Retired Brewer Jeff Cirillo has teamed up with HAWS for the $10,000 Matching Gift Behavior Rehabilitation Challenge. HAWS has just 90 days to raise the matching funds for the shelter's Behavior program: $15 for kennel care for one dog for a day, $27 for a treat puzzle box, $60 for one dog through the entire program! Every dollar contributed is matched dollar-for-dollar. Donate at 262-542-8851 or hawspets.org. Help rehabilitate those dogs who may have never received a second chance! All donations are tax deductible.
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This article describes components, highlights applicable codes/standards, notes advantages and disadvantages, and discusses potential commercial applications.
Advantages of direct gas-fired AHUs include higher energy efficiency, lower installation cost, free humidification, and inherent freeze protection. Disadvantages include potential space contamination and limitation to applications needing a minimum of 20-percent makeup air. It is important to evaluate all of the advantages and disadvantages for a particular application.
Freeze protection. A direct gas-fired AHU has no fluids to freeze. Electric resistant heaters and heat pumps also will not freeze. However, steam and hot-water coils are prone to freezing if not maintained and operated properly. At very low temperatures, the moisture produced within indirect gas-fired AHUs may condense and freeze within the combustion chamber. Direct gas-fired AHUs are a good choice for facilities that are used intermittently during the heating season.
Higher energy efficiency. Direct gas-fired AHUs are highly efficient because their burners are located in the supply-air stream, where all generated heat is transferred. Energy can be lost when radiant heat escapes through AHU casings or stoichiometric combustion--a process by which all fuel is burned ideally--is not realized. Typically, a direct-fired AHU is 100-percent-efficient with a 92-percent thermal efficiency, while an indirect-fired AHU has thermal efficiencies in the 76- to 80-percent range.
For example, let's look at an auditorium with an annual energy usage of 42,000 therms. An 80-percent-efficient indirect gas-fired AHU would produce an annual energy usage of 52,500 therms, while a 92-percent-efficient direct gas-fired AHU would produce an annual energy usage of 45,650 therms, resulting in an annual energy savings of 6,850 therms and an annual energy-cost savings of $6,850 (based on $1 per therm).
Although the example illustrates the energy savings of direct gas-fired vs. indirect gas-fired AHUs, direct gas-fired AHUs are attractive when compared with most other heating sources. For example, a steam heating coil is supplied by a boiler, has a maximum efficiency of 80 percent, and experiences distribution-piping energy losses. An electrical-resistance heater technically may be 100-percent efficient, but its higher electrical-energy cost usually makes it a less attractive option. Heat pumps are energy-efficient when the outside-air temperature is above 32˚F, but lose their efficiency as the ambient temperature drops below freezing because they must be supplemented with electrical-resistance heat at those temperatures. High-efficiency hot-water boilers have efficiencies equal to or slightly higher than those of direct gas-fired AHUs, but they experience distribution-piping-energy, pumping-energy, and boiler-radiant-energy losses.
Lower installation cost. Smaller (less than 5,000 cfm) direct gas-fired AHUs have equipment costs similar to those of indirect gas-fired AHUs. As their sizes increase, direct gas-fired AHUs become progressively cheaper. AHU equipment costs are lower for units with electric heat, hot-water heat, and steam because they do not have burner-management systems. Regarding auxiliary support equipment and required infrastructure, direct and indirect gas-fired AHUs only require gas piping. Steam systems require steam boilers, condensate-return systems, makeup-water systems, chemical-treatment systems, steam-distribution systems, combustion-air systems, flues, and gas piping. Hot-water heating systems require hot-water boilers, hot-water distribution piping and pumps, makeup-water systems, chemical-treatment systems, flues, and gas piping. Electric systems need only electrical service. Taking an AHU and all of its associated auxiliary equipment into account, a direct gas-fired AHU has one of the lowest installation costs.
Lower internal AHU static-pressure drop. The static-pressure drop across direct gas-fired burners is lower than that across indirect gas-fired burners, hot-water coils, and steam coils, resulting in lower fan energy usage and cost.
Free humidification. Moisture is one product of combustion that a direct gas-fired AHU supplies to a facility/process. If a direct gas-fired AHU has a firing rate of 1 million Btuh utilizing gas with a heat content of 950 Btu per cubic foot, then 1,053 cu ft of gas is needed per hour, supplying 97.7 lb of moisture per hour to the facility/process. When a direct gas-fired AHU is utilized, facilities or processes that require humidification during the heating season may not need additional humidification or may need only lower-capacity humidification systems, resulting in lower installation and energy costs.
Lighter AHUs. Direct gas-fired AHUs tend to weigh slightly less than the other AHUs previously discussed. However, this difference normally is not enough to make a substantial change in the supporting structure needed.


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Wi-Fi on KLM flights
27 May 2013 | Stay in touch with your loved ones, work as if in your office and browse the internet just like you always do – also on board your KLM flight!
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If you, like many, dread that moment when you need to switch off your electronic equipment just before take-off, we've got news for you.
As of 29 May starting with 1 Boeing 777-300 aircraft, we are introducing Wi-Fi on board – as a pilot.
Also this year, Air France will run this pilot on 1 Boeing 777-300 aircraft.
If your aircraft is equipped with Wi-Fi, you will see 'Wi-Fi on board' signs, your purser will inform you, and there will be an instruction card in the pocket of the seat in front of you.
We will ask you to switch off your beloved device like usual, but now it will only be for a little while!
Free services and paid internetAs soon as your aircraft has reached 6 km (20,000 feet) altitude, you can go online with any mobile device.
You'll have free access to information about several destinations, news, weather, online magazines and links to handy services such as car rental options – plus access to KLM.com for mobile.
At a fee, you can access the whole internet - per hour (EUR 10.95) or for the entire flight (EUR 19.95). All you need is a credit card.
Of course we very much appreciate your opinion of our new Wi-Fi service, so you'll find a short questionnaire when accessing our portal on board.
EntertainmentOn intercontinental KLM flights you can always enjoy yourself with over a 1000 hours of inflight entertainment. And during flights on which Wi-Fi is not yet available, it is already possible to send and receive text messages and e-mails through your personal entertainment system.
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A major investigation by the Wall Street Journal has revealed how the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) has been given permission to access a vast database containing thousands of US citizen's personal information, raising concerns that the country has just taken another huge step towards becoming a total big brother state.
You can read the article in full on the WSJ here. It's pretty long-winded, but basically it states that the NCTC has been granted powers to examine government-held files of some US citizens, even when these people have no criminal record or done anything suspicious. Previously, the agency was only allowed to store information on people when they had reasons to suspect they were involved in terrorism, or else otherwise related to an ongoing terrorism investigation.
According to the WSJ, the NCTC now has access to a vast database of government data, including lists of casino employees, flight records and many more. Worse still, the agency will be allowed to analyze these records for 'suspicious patterns' whilst holding them for up to five years.
Now, in order to understand why this has happened, we need to look back to the attempted Christmas Day plane bombing by suspected Al Qaeda terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who stored explosives in his underpants and was only just prevented from detonating these in the nick of time. A Senate investigation later came to the conclusion that the NCTC had in fact been in possession of intelligence about Abdulmutallab's plans, but it failed to pass on this information or ask other agencies about him. Had they done so, Abdulmutallab could have been prevented from boarding his flight to the US and the near miss would never have happened.
Responding to this, President Obama issued an order that all government agencies must now forward their information to the NCTC, so that it could "pursue thoroughly and exhaustively terrorism threat threads".
Had things stayed this way, innocent persons would have had little to worry about, but apparently this measure didn't satisfy the agency. Being the relatively small, unknown agency that it is, the NCTC came back that it lacked the resources necessary to "exhaustively" investigate all of the leads it had received as it had been ordered to, which meant that it was falling behind with its work.
To remedy this problem, the NCTC requested unlimited access to all of the data held by US government agencies, for as long as it needed this access, for both suspects and those citizens that were not suspected of any wrongdoing.
Incredibly, following a high level meeting between intelligence chiefs and Eric Holder at the White House, the NCTC's request was granted, effectively granting it total freedom to investigate any citizen it wants, for as long as it wants, utilizing all of the information held on them by government agencies.
The WSJ sums it up best:
""It's breathtaking" in its scope. Under the new rules, [NCTC] can obtain almost any database the government collects that it says is "reasonably believed" to contain "terrorism information." The list could potentially include almost any government database, from financial forms submitted by people seeking federally backed mortgages to the health records of people who sought treatment at Veterans Administration hospitals.
We've seen similar steps taken before, most notably with the Bush administration's Total Information Awareness data-mining program which would have been able to trawl through not just government records, but any records ever collected about someone. We were lucky in that public outrage put a stop to this obscene invasion of privacy, but so far we haven't seen any similar outcry regarding the NCTC, most likely because no one knows what it's now capable of doing.
There is one small safeguard in all of this. According to the WSJ, should the NCTC requested access to a new database, a notice of this action will be posted on the Federal Register. At this point, any citizen whose information is stored on that particular database will be allowed to post comments to the register, and will at least be aware that the NCTC is looking at them. Sadly though, just knowing that your privacy is being compromised doesn't put a stop to it.
Say "hello" to big brother everyone.