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In this paper we present a new optical, flexible pressure sensor that can be applied as smart skin to a robot or to consumer electronic devices. We describe a mechano-optical transduction principle that can allow the encoding of information related to an externally applied mechanical stimulus, e.g., contact, pressure and shape of contact. The physical embodiment that we present in this work is an electronic skin consisting of eight infrared emitters and eight photo-detectors coupled together and embedded in a planar PDMS waveguide of 5.5 cm diameter. When a contact occurs on the sensing area, the optical signals reaching the peripheral detectors experience a loss because of the Frustrated Total Internal Reflection and deformation of the material. The light signal is converted to electrical signal through an electronic system and a reconstruction algorithm running on a computer reconstructs the pressure map. Pilot experiments are performed to validate the tactile sensing principle by applying external pressures up to 160 kPa. Moreover, the capabilities of the electronic skin to detect contact pressure at multiple subsequent positions, as well as its function on curved surfaces, are validated. A weight sensitivity of 0.193 gr−1 was recorded, thus making the electronic skin suitable to detect pressures in the order of few grams.
In recent years, touch screens have represented one of the major drivers for new technological developments in the field of flexible touch sensors suitable for extended surfaces [
Looking more closely at actual touch panels, they detect only the position of the contacts and use this input for human-machine interactions. This kind of interface is suitable for most applications but others would benefit from a further degree of interaction. Possible 3D user interfaces include, for example: graphic applications, games, 3D virtual object manipulation tasks etc. Though 2D gestures could emulate the interaction with a third dimension, they can't provide a mapping as intuitive and direct as it is for the two dimensions on a surface, causing a complex and not natural interaction. Indeed, it has been reported that pressure based interactions improve usability. For example, pressure based keyboards can improve key click performance on touch screens [
Besides pressure sensing, it is desirable that touch sensors be flexible, thin and bendable so that they can be applied over curved surfaces or flexible displays. These features would enable new form factors for devices and innovative products: the electronic industry is working on the next generation of mobile devices that have pocket size but have wider screens that can be rolled. The dramatic push towards having flexible systems (including all related electronics) by the consumer electronics market is rapidly improving the available technologies for developing new tactile sensing systems in modern robotics, where additional stringent mechanical characteristics are required. In particular, the emulation of the mechanical characteristics of the biological skin model is one of the major goals for humanoid and rehabilitation robotics [
Among more consolidated transduction methods for touch sensors, like resistive and capacitive ones, optical approaches have been investigated and developed to the extent that new sensors have been commercialized [
Optical sensors can be divided in two main categories: fiber Bragg based optical sensors and microbending optical sensors. The first ones are composed of optical fibers with internal Bragg grating that reflects narrow spectral components of the light emitted by a broad spectrum source. Strain/pressure and temperature can be detected by analyzing the Bragg wavelength shift of the reflected light. An example of these kinds of sensors is reported in Reference [
The second type of optical sensors consists of waveguides in which their microbending can alter the transmitted light. The determination of the light loss is used to detect the pressure. The use of flexible optical fibers allowed force discrimination below 1 N with a resolution of 0.1 N, and up to 30 N with 1 N resolution [
In this work we present and apply a novel optically-based approach by using a soft, flexible and transparent PDMS waveguide having the two-fold function of mechanical substrate and waveguide material, with air as cladding. We address the design and fabrication of the full tactile sensing system embodying the applied principle. As a result the fabricated device is stretchable, bendable, and rugged, while the principle on which it is based is potentially extendable to large areas. The mechanical characteristics of the electronic skin are due to the properties of PDMS [
In the present investigation, we attempt to go beyond the state of the art by proposing a new concept of smart electronic skin (e-skin) that has: (1) intrinsic mechanical compliance, stretchability and flexibility; (2) the capability to provide information about multiple contacts and the distribution of pressure externally applied; and (3) the capability to retrieve information about the shape of the contact. Although this last point is not fully investigated in the present work, a preliminary validation of such aspect is provided.
The paper is organized as follows: in Section 2 we present the electronic skin concept, we illustrate the design and physics of the tactile sensing mechanism, its embodiment in a prototype, the electronics and the reconstruction method, as well as the experimental set-ups and protocols used in the characterization. In Section 3 the results of the preliminary experimental analysis to validate the concept are reported. Finally, in Section 4 and Section 5 the discussion and the conclusions are reported, respectively.
The electronic skin comprises a tactile sensing mechanism, conditioning and acquisition electronics, and reconstruction software running on a PC.
The tactile sensing mechanism is based on a mechano-optical transduction principle. The intensity of an electromagnetic wave traveling in a waveguide is modulated by mechanical deformations of the waveguide itself. From the intensity measured at the boundaries of the waveguide, it is possible to reconstruct the location and entity of mechanical deformations, by solving an inverse problem by a process that is similar to tomographic backprojection [
The device in this work consists of a thin flexible elastomeric transparent layer embedding along its periphery electromagnetic emitters and detectors that are positioned in a known configuration. Because of the total internal reflection phenomenon [
The reason for this is that the mechanical contact causes concurrent effects that lead to a change in the intensity of the light reaching the detectors, since the electromagnetic waves are partially deflected out of the waveguide. This behavior happens because of two main mechanisms: (1) the
The quantitative determination of the pressure applied to all points of the waveguide surface is beyond the scope of this work. We assume, as a first approximation, that we are in a regime of small deformations, where the mechanical behavior of the waveguide can be considered linear. These deformations, whose amplitude then depends linearly on the applied pressure, cause changes in the curvature of the waveguide interface. The losses of electromagnetic intensity caused by the changes in curvature can be expected to be non-linear, similarly to what is observed when deforming optical fibers [
Starting from the variations of signal intensity recorded at the periphery of the waveguide, the determination of the deformations that cause the electromagnetic losses is an inverse problem. Conceptually, this problem is similar to those found in tomographic imaging. Therefore the reconstruction process we used is inspired by tomographic back-projection procedures [
A further aspect concerns the possibility to reconstruct the shape of the contact area. Although this aspect was not thoroughly investigated in this work, some preliminary results will be provided in Section 3.
In general, we can state that the relation between the light intensity collected by the detectors,
An electronic skin prototype was built embodying the tactile sensing mechanism described above. In such a system a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) waveguide structure is used with embedded emitters and detectors. The emitters are infrared (IR) LEDs, while the detectors are phototransistors (
The sensor was fabricated by embedding eight LEDs (TSKS5400S, 950 nm, Vishay, Malvern, PA, USA) and eight PDs (TEKT5400S, 950 nm, Vishay) in a 5 mm thick layer of PDMS having a diameter of 5.5 cm. The 16 components were fixed to a plastic support frame by their connectors, thus leaving the head of each component free. The components were then placed on their heads in a Petri dish. PDMS (Dow Corning Sylgard 184) was prepared by mixing the curing agent to the base monomer with 1:10 weight ratio and degassed in vacuum for about 1 hour. A suitable quantity of the liquid PDMS mixture was poured in the petri dish to reach the 5 mm thickness required to completely embed the active part of emitters and detectors in the polymer. Finally, the sample was put in an oven at 60 °C for 3 hours and the curing phase ended after approximately 12 hrs at room temperature. The resulting prototype is shown in
The electronics (see
The driving electronics comprises a 1–8 decoder/demultiplexer (Texas Instruments CD74AC138M) whose outputs activate one power switch MOSFET (Fairchild Semiconductor FDC6330L) at a time. Since the decoder is active low, inverters (Fairchild Semiconductor 74AC04MTC) are used to drive the power switch MOSFETs. When the corresponding power switch MOSFET is activated, the LED is switched on and polarized with the required current, 10 mA to be working in the linear zone of its I-V characteristic. The polarization resistance R was therefore calculated to be 390 Ω. The schematic in
The read-out electronics comprises a polarization stage for the phototransistors, a current-voltage converter stage that converts the photocurrents in voltages and finally an amplification and filter stage.
Considering a Vdd = 3 V, a collector-emitter saturation voltage VCEsat = 0.3 V and a required collector current for the phototransistors of 4 mA, the polarization resistor R1 was set to 675 Ω. The gain of the amplifiers (R2/R3) was set to 1 by choosing for both R2 and R3 a value of 10 kΩ. The value for the gain should be chosen in order to avoid saturating the amplifiers' output with the highest electromagnetic signal coming from the LEDs. For future larger artificial skins the distance between LEDs and PDs would be higher, thus the gain will probably need to be set to a value larger than the unity. The refresh rate for the touch module was chosen to be 8 Hz and thus the clock frequency for the LEDs and PDs was 64 Hz. The low pass filter frequency was set to 38 Hz by choosing C = 415 nF, thus respecting the Nyquist theorem and avoiding back folded frequencies in the band of interest. After the amplifier/filter stage the outputs pass through a stage with op-amps in buffer mode and finally are sampled by the Data Acquisition (DAQ) system.
The reconstruction process is inspired by tomography and consisted in the definition of three types of matrices and in addressing a backprojection procedure. The major steps in the reconstruction are described in the following.
The data acquired from the DAQ board is initially stored as a matrix,
These two matrixes,
The calibration matrix
In a first phase, experimental trials were performed to test the electronic skin's working principle in order to provide significant information for the implementation and optimization of the reconstruction algorithm. This included loading tests performed on the sensor during which its output signals were analyzed without using the processing algorithm.
In a second phase, the aim of the experimental analysis was to test the capability of the electronic skin system (comprising the tactile sensing mechanism, its electronic conditioning system and the processing algorithm) to detect tactile information related to a mechanical stimulus. In particular, the position and intensity of contact were obtained. Moreover, preliminary trials for detection of one type of contact shape were addressed.
In a third phase, we performed preliminary experiments to begin validating the more advanced features of the electronic skin: detection of multi-pressure contacts and operation on curved surfaces. The experimental apparatus and protocols used in these tests are described in the next sections.
The experimental apparatus employed for the characterization of the smart skin system consisted of the components schematically illustrated in
The electronic and acquisition system, integrated in the experimental set-up, consisted of (see
For the final test on the multi pressure reconstruction capability the set-up of
In order to address a preliminary validation of the performance of the optical sensor on curved surfaces (as it will be explained in Section 2.5.2 (5)) a half cylinder tube was positioned on an electronic scale and loaded manually.
Different tests were performed to assess the overall performance of the sensor, according to the following protocols.
Acquisitions were performed without any load on the
The output of one arbitrarily chosen PD was acquired directly with an oscilloscope during one driving cycle in which all LEDs were activated one at a time. No load was applied in this case and thereafter the measured signal could be considered as the offset state for the tested PD. The refresh rate of the sensor response was 8 Hz and thus each LED was turned on for 125 ms at a time.
Loading tests were performed to assess the variation of the outputs of the PDs in function of externally applied loads and contact positions. In particular, forty different loads were applied, in the range from 0 kPa to 160 kPa. The probe chosen had a square shape of 10 × 10 mm2. The two contact positions tested and the two PDs considered are shown in
The artificial skin functionality was validated by means of indentation tests with a Delrin probe having a square head (area 10 × 10 mm2) as indenter, and by applying different values of normal load from 0 N to 80 KPa. The experimental set-up used is described in Section 2.5.1 and depicted in
In order to give clues on the capability of the artificial skin to detect multiple contacts at the same time, the system was placed on an electronic scale, and four contacts were achieved on its
The response of the artificial skin positioned on a curved surface of 5 cm bending radius was tested. In this test a half cylinder structure was positioned on an electronic scale and the load was applied with a Delrin square shape probe (area 1 cm2). A loading pressure of about 142 kPa was applied by making four subsequent contacts, each time releasing the load and waiting for 5 seconds between contacts. As in the previous case (
The results of the experiments which protocols are described in the previous section are reported in the following in separate sub-sections.
The photovoltage output of the detectors was measured when neither physical contact nor load was applied on the
Here we show the results of the indentation experiments by considering the waveforms of the photovoltage across the same detectors of the measurements described in the previous section,
The largest voltage variation at PD 7 was observed when the active LED was number 4. Therefore this is the case in which the contact occurs on the portion of the
In considering the results obtained for PD 5,
The largest photovoltage variation was observed when the active LED was number 8. Therefore, in this case contact occurs in a region only partially in the trapezius connecting emitter and detector. The absolute voltage variation (Vmeas – V0) versus the applied load for the pair defined by LED 8 and PD 5 is shown in
This experiment focused on the performance of the electronic skin in mapping pressure applied to its
This kind of experiment aimed at giving preliminary results for the multi-pressure contact detection of the electronic skin.
This experiment was performed with the goal of showing that the electronic skin can operate even when bent on curved surfaces.
The design of the system investigated in this work aimed at an electronic skin of simple fabrication overcoming some limitations of current planar pressure sensor technologies. This was achieved by the adoption of a mechano-optical principle of detection, and the use of a distributed peripheral architecture for the active components. The fabrication process is simple and repeatable as it uses PDMS as bulk material for the waveguide and through-hole components as active elements. Differently by other optical sensors approaches [
An immediate consequence of the used transduction method and related electronic skin architecture is the fact that no active component is in or under the sensing area. Furthermore, the latter is a planar waveguide transmitting the signals from the emitters to the detectors, and so there is no need for connections or wiring to cross it. Both these design choices allow high transparency and high flexibility of the sensing area, and are at odds with what is generally seen in planar pressure and touch sensor technologies, in which active components are sensing "pixels" in the sensing area, and thus need connections to cross it. Moreover, an important aspect related to the architecture of the tactile system is that the number of active components increases linearly with the length of the sensing area periphery, rather than with its area. This can prove to be an advantage in terms of both costs and power consumption. On the other hand, this architecture places a larger burden on the system in terms of computations required to correctly evaluate contacts on the sensing area, because this information needs to be determined indirectly.
It must be noted that in the design of the system, the thickness of the electronic skin plays a key role, since it needs to strike a balance between flexibility, sensitivity and robustness. In the present work, such parameter was mostly affected by the choice of simplifying the optical coupling between components and the waveguide by entirely embedding the former in the latter. Thus the PDMS waveguide was 5 mm thick.
Concerning the specific results that were obtained from the indentation experiments, in the following we discuss the two typical cases considered in Section 3.2. The largest variations of photovoltage with respect to increasing load were observed for emitter-detector pairs, respectively 4–7 and 8–5, for which the deformation affected the most the path of transmission of the IR signal in the planar waveguide. Conversely, we can see almost no variation in the signal from LED 6 to PD 7 when the probe is in the position specified in
Besides the above considerations, the trend observed in
Furthermore, concerning the relation obtained in the photovoltage-pressure graph of
Still regarding the LED 8-PD 5 pair, in
Concerning the experimental analysis performed to assess the capability of the system to provide a pressure map, we refer in the following to the results shown in
Further limits to the spatial resolution of the electronic skin are posed by the material used to fabricate the planar waveguide. The deformation of the surface cannot be expected to exactly follow the contact profile; rather, a mechanical filtering effect is introduced that tends to smear the boundaries of the detected contact. This effect can be somewhat mitigated, if the material used is well characterized, by a post-processing step in the reconstruction algorithm. However, in this work the limits to the resolution introduced by the low number of components and by the coupling scheme are such that the mechanical effect could not be appreciated.
Bearing in mind all these considerations, the results in
Even if the results were obtained through a preliminary analysis,
The importance of fabricating a flexible and compliant electronic skin is strongly related to the possibility of detecting tactile cues when the device is on a curved body. This opens a plethora of applications in robotics and for consumer goods that can present this way new form factors. The preliminary experimental analysis performed so far by positioning the device on curved surfaces can thus provide an initial validation of the system, and results are shown in
The integrated electronic skin proposed in this work is rugged, but still has high mechanical flexibility and it is easy to fabricate. The mechano-optical sensor showed high transparency since we used a PDMS layer as both a waveguide embedding the active components and as the sensing area of the e-skin.
The artificial skin was tested by applying pressures up to 160 kPa. In such a range output voltage variations could be appreciated and this demonstrates the suitability of the e-skin for touch interfaces. In fact, normal forces in the range of 0 N to 2 N are most relevant when a fingertip makes a dynamic contact with a flat surface during a typical exploration task [
We found a peak sensitivity of 1.93 kPa−1 which corresponds to a weight sensitivity of 0.193 gr−1 for an emitter- detector pair, which makes the electronic skin able to discriminate a weight as low as a few grams. Moreover, the reconstruction algorithm has been initially tested to reconstruct four simultaneous pressure contacts and to prove the correct operation of the electronic skin when bent.
We attempted to go further the state–of-the-art of optical sensors using waveguide by adopting an information processing principle inspired by tomography, that coupled with the mechanical properties of the material chosen results in an unique e-skin, able to reconstruct the intensity profile of multiple contacts on its sensing area. We expect future implementations of this system to not be limited in the number of contacts. Moreover we show preliminary results of reconstruction of the shape of contact.
The active components are positioned around the periphery of the
Unlike previous approaches, that we define "point to point", since an array of taxels is used to retrieve pressure information on a sensing area, our electronic skin can "sense" in every point of its surface as it adopts a distributed reconstruction method. This way the spatial resolution dramatically increases and it can be expected it to achieve values below 1 mm; the latter representing a good reference value for a human finger [
All these characteristics open a plethora of specific applications of the electronic skin in robotic devices in general, including soft robots in which the gathering of information from a soft tactile skin is fundamental for their control. In parallel, the artificial skin can find ready application as a touch interface technology for consumer electronic devices, adding flexibility and true pressure detection to the functionalities available today.
Future works will include the development of a larger electronic skin, with a higher density of active components. Moreover, smaller components (SMD), will allow integration of a thinner elastomeric waveguide. As explained in the discussions section, such a device is expected to reach higher performances, especially in terms of spatial resolution and sensitivity. Further study will be dedicated to the theoretical analysis of the system, in order to account for different non-idealities in the real systems: for example, the mechanical deformations of the layer introduce non-trivial scattering effects, which need to be modeled in order to introduce opportune filters in the information processing phase, to further improve performances. Another issue that will be addressed is the spatial filtering of the elastic materials: knowing the modeling of this effect a reverse filter in the algorithm might be implemented, allowing resolving at the maximum spatial resolution the pressure contacts.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Schematic of the tactile sensing device layout.
Schematic of sensor working principle in case an external mechanical stimulus: (
Electronic skin with external wiring: (
Block illustration of the experimental set-up for the artificial skin system. The loading system is depicted in detail in
Image of the experimental set-up loading system, integrating: (
Photovoltage measured at PD 7 when no load is applied. The numbers in the plot on the right indicate the LED responsible for the corresponding part of detected signal.
Photovoltage measured at PD 5 when no load is applied. The numbers in the plot on the right indicate the LED responsible for the corresponding part of detected signal.
Waveforms of photovoltage measured at PD 7 when different loads are applied. The contact area is 100 mm2. Inset: schematic of the experiment.
Absolute variation of photovoltage, (Vmeas – V0), at PD 7 receiving the signal from LED 4, with error bar.
Absolute variation of photovoltage, (Vmeas – V0), at PD 7 receiving a signal from LED 4.
Relative variation of detected photovoltage, (Vmeas – V0)/V0, and sensitivity for the pressure optical sensor using PDMS as bulk material. The read-out operation considers PD 7 receiving light from LED 4.
Photovoltage measured at PD 5 when different loads are applied. The contact area is 100 mm2. Inset: schematic of the experiment.
Absolute variation of photovoltage, (Vmeas – V0), at PD 5 receiving signal from LED 8, with error bar.
Relative variation of detected photovoltage, (Vmeas – V0)/V0, and sensitivity for the pressure optical sensor using PDMS as bulk material. The read-out operation considers PD 5 receiving light from LED 8.


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"So far, it is a huge success. People love it -- there are no smells in the home, the risks of diarrhoea spreading to other family members are reduced and the bag is cleanly disposed of.
"We have saleswomen who are setting up networks and selling the bags, and that way they make money for themselves."
Peepoo has hidden benefits, too, acting to prevent another scourge.
"They tell us that the number of young children who get raped while going out into the bushes to go to the toilet has fallen," said Wirseen, shaking her head at the phenomenon itself.
Production of the bags is currently 3,000 a day, but will ramp up to 500,000 a day from November to target markets in South Asia and elsewhere in Africa but also for stockpiling for disasters.
Peepoople are among a crowd of small, smart entrepreneurs who, alongside mega-corporations pushing their wares at the six-day fair in Marseille, see the world's water crisis as a source of profit and aid.
Dressed in a Hawaiian-style red, black and blue shirt, Jumpei Taniguchi is dazzling visitors by taking a beaker of filthy water and transforming the muck into drinkable water in less than a minute.
His company, Nippon Poly-Glu Ltd. of Osaka, Japan uses a granule formula that clumps bacteria, toxic metals and particles together, but does not use chlorine.
The "clumper," or flocculant, is polyglutamic acid, which is what makes the Japanese dish of fermented soybeans called natto so sticky.
Calcium is added to it to neutralise the negative, repellant electrical charge of particles. That way, the poly-glu sticks the particles together.
"The product is selling very well in Bangladesh," which has high levels of natural arsenic in its groundwater, said Taniguchi. "We have saleswomen, the Poly-Glu Ladies, who sell it in their neighbourhood."
Dutch engineer Henk Holtslag, wearing the handlebar moustache of a 19th-century inventor, works with Dutch non-government organisations which send their skills to developing countries.
He showed off a rope pump, a device with an ancestry going back 2,000 years.
Nothing could be simpler: you drill a hole in the ground and install a pipe with a loop of rope with knots that are just smaller than the pipe's diameter.
Turn the handle to make the loop go round, and the knots -- in this case, PVC caps -- bring up the water in spurts.
"If you install a rope pump costing just 100 dollars (70 euros), that provides water for 10 families," or enough to grow one and a half kilos (3.3 pounds) of grain per person for 80 people, said Holtslag.
The Dutch are training African technicians in making, installing and maintaining the pumps, thus enabling them to sell the devices to villagers and farmers.
Holtslag and others said the era of direct aid -- of donor and beneficiary -- was over.
Endowing local people with skills and harnessing the power of enterprise were the keys, said John Naugle of Relief International, a US NGO which has designed a flexible rainwater collector helped by a $4.5-million (3.5-million-euro) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant.
The rugged $50 (38 euro), 1,400-litre (350-gallon) plastic bag is being test-marketed in Uganda, branded as "bob" and backed by eye-catching marketing.
"What happens when a direct aid project's budget is used up? It ends," said Naugle. "But the need for water is forever."
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When several women, including a young FBI agent, disappear under mysterious circumstances, agent Mosley Drummy (Xzibit) asks Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who now works as a staff physician at a hospital, to help him locate Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), the fugitive former lead of the the FBI's X-Files division. With Mulder on board, the group sets out to investigate the case along with Father Crissman (Billy Connolly), a disgraced former priest, who claims that God is sending him visions of the crimes, causing him to bleed from the eyes. Directed by Chris Carter. With Amanda Peet. Categories: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Based on a TV Series. Year: 2008.
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Recent widow Audrey Burke (Halle Berry) finds her life adrift after her husband (David Duchovny) is killed during a random act of violence. With nowhere else to turn, Audrey invites her husband's troubled drug-addicted best friend Jerry Sunborne (Benicio Del Toro) to live in a room next to her garage, in the hope that he might be able to her and her children deal with the sudden loss of her husband. As Jerrt struggles to overcome his addiction and Audrey deals with her grief, they are able to find strength in one another that helps them both move forward. Directed by Susanne Bier. With Alexis Llewellyn, Micah Berry, John Carroll Lynch and Alison Lohman. Categories: Drama. Year: 2007.
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Mike Klein (David Duchovny) convinces a TV network to make a pilot of the sitcom he wrote based on the aftermath of his brother's suicide. As the show moves through the phases of casting, production and rewrites, Mike faces off with the network executives (Sigourney Weaver and Ioan Gruffudd) to keep the show faithful to his vision. But, as the struggle takes its toll on Mike and his family, he finds that compromise is the name of the game. Directed by Jake Kasdan. With Judy Greer, Fran Kranz, Lindsay Sloane and Justine Bateman. Categories: Comedy, Drama. Year: 2006.
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A coming-of-age drama about Tommy (Anton Yelchin), a boy growing up in New York City in the Seventies whose best friend is Pappass (Robin Williams), a retarded man. Tommy rebels against his mother (Téa Leoni), who worries that this friendship will jeopardize Tommy's scholarship to an exclusive private school. Erykah Badu plays an inmate at a local prison who gives Tommy advice, and David Duchovny (who also directed) portraysTommy as an adult. Directed by David Duchovny. Categories: Comedy, Drama. Year: 2004.
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When a meteor falls in the Arizona desert, two local community college professors, Dr. Ira Cane (David Duchovny) and Prof. Harry Block (Orlando Jones), are the first to investigate. What they discover is that the meteor has brought alien organisms that have begun to evolve at an incredible rate in earth's atmosphere. Joined by Dr. Allison Reed (Julianne Moore), a government scientist, and Wayne Grey (Seann William Scott), a fireman in training, it's up to Ira and Harry to stop the aliens before they take over the planet. Directed by Ivan Reitman. With Ethan Suplee, Dan Aykroyd and Ted Levine. Categories: Comedy, Sci-Fi. Year: 2001.
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Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is a clueless male model whose super successful career is threatened by the arrival of Hansel (Owen Wilson), the fashion industry's next big thing. Just when Derek begins to give up hope, fashion czar Mugatu (Will Ferrell) offers him a spot modeling his hot new clothing line, Derelicte. Everything seems back to normal until a journalist (Christine Taylor) uncovers Mugatu's plot to brainwash Derek to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Directed by Ben Stiller. With Jerry Stiller, David Duchovny, Milla Jovovich and Jon Voight. Categories: Comedy. Year: 2001.
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Journalist Brian Kessler (David Duchovny) and his photographer girlfriend Carrie (Michelle Forbes) set out to visit a collection of murder sites while doing research on serial killers. Sharing the ride and their expenses is Early Grayce (Brad Pitt), a white trash criminal, and his girlfriend Adele (Juliette Lewis). As Early becomes more and more unstable, Brian and Carrie begin to fear that they may learn about serial killers first hand. Directed by Dominic Sena. Categories: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Year: 1993.
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Today on Planet 100: Sarah Palin In Bad Taste (Video)
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Today, on Planet 100, Sarah Palin likens President Barack Obama to Hitler, Chipotle gives money to charity for your junk emails, and Australia's new Prime Minister Julia Gillard takes an opportunity to express her commitment to combating climate change.Sarah Palin In Bad Taste
One-time Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin has now solidified her status as the leader of the radical right-wing...likening President Obama to Adolf Hitler.
In a tweet Thursday, Palin endorsed an article by conservative columnist Thomas Sowell which argues that Obama's establishment of a BP escrow fund would result in the administration embracing Nazi-like dictatorial powers. A similar slander was recently made by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert on the floor of the House of Representatives.
In truth, the $20 billion BP escrow fund is not Obama confiscating private property, but standing up to a criminally negligent multi-national corporation.
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Forward 100 junk emails to fast food chain Chipotle and they'll give $10 to non-profit Lunchbox which provides healthy meals for kids.
The campaign called "No Junk" combines email collection and viral marketing into one, all for a good cause. Capitalizing on our collective distaste for spam, Chipotle offers to help us get rid of the junk—in kids lunchboxes AND in their parent's inboxes.
The goal is to give $10,000 to the cause which will go to help schools implement healthy lunch programs for their kids.
Via: MNN
Aussie Climate Leader
Australia's new female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, used her first press conference to affirm her strong commitment to stopping global warming.
Former PM Kevin Rudd's popularity nosedived with his decision to delay the Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. A recent poll showed that 86 per cent of Australians want action on climate change.
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Asthma is now the most common disease among kids, but a lot more needs to be done to help them.
A survey by the National Asthma Campaign (NAC) found there were problems with children not being diagnosed early enough, schools not being supportive, bad experiences in casualty and worries about medicine.
Asthma is a condition which makes it hard for sufferers to breathe, and can cause wheezing. Sometimes this leads to an asthma 'attack', which can be fatal.
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One in eight children in the UK are currently being treated for asthma, and one in five have been diagnosed with asthma at some point.
Children in the UK also suffer from 'severe wheezing' more than any other kids in the world.
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Scotty is originally from Cape Girardeau, MO. He started his fruitful career as a paperboy. When Scotty was in 5th grade, his brother was a patient at St. Jude's and his dad helped organize a radiothon. These were the days when stations didn't really hold radiothons, so it wasn't a big deal. Scotty went to school to collect money the day of the radiothon and delivered it to the station. The station was based out of trailer and for some reason he was hooked! He was fortunate enough to get his very first radio job with a station he had grown up listening too!
Over Scotty's years being in the Country Music Radio Station arena, he has had some incredible opportunities to see amazing concerts, meet artists, and of course his favorite part, meet the listeners! His first "real" concert was Huey Lewis & the News and The Robert Cray Band at SIU Arena in Carbondale. It was his first of many road trips to a concert! This was the moment he knew "It was hip to be square."
If you ask Scotty who his favorite artist is, he'll tell you "I have 100 songs on my "top 10 songs of all time" list. In his opinion James Taylor is the greatest artist of all time, followed VERY closely by Merle Haggard. He did not grow up listening to old country but when he came to it later life, he completely immersed himself in it!
Scotty has one thing in particular on his "bucket list." He wants to dunk a basketball! It is ONE thing he has never done but would LOVE to experience. Scotty and his "mates" used to play around on an 8-foot basketball hoop and he was tall enough to dunk on that one. However, he always wished he could do it just once on the real 10-foot hoop!
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The group had the sound turned off on its song "Charlie Boy," after telling the audience they had "one more for you." When the group hit the song's chorus, the sound was turned off as the band had exceeded its 4:45 to 5:35 p.m. set time.
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Best not to ask GOP fundraising legend Georgette Mosbacher about the state of her beloved party unless you want an earful.
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I'm very excited to announce the release of the AudioJungle Audio Player (AAP)! We gave you a sneak peek a few months ago but now it's online, and available to use! The AAP allows you to embed a music player anywhere on your Web page, site or blog, totally customize it, and then call your own AudioJungle music, other author's music, audio on our Popular Files page, any search query from our site, and much, much more!
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I would like to give a super-big thank you to Lance Snider for working with me in person to develop the AAP in Flash/ActionScript. As you can see, he did an outstanding job, and we couldn't have done this so well without Lance's help. I would also like to thank Sam Lanning AKA Reaper-Media for creating the incredible WordPress Plugin and Dynamic Code Generator that the AAP relies on. Both Sam and Lance were absolutely brilliant to work with! The power of community, way to go guys!
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Beautiful! Excellent work, guys! Let's flood the web with our amazing AudioJungle music!!
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Yes! Finally! This is awesome news! Thanks to all who worked on it!
an opportunity to peddle our wares all over. Exciting times ahoy! I have a question though, our site is, well pretty much all flash. Is it possible to embed the player into a swf?
Hey Scott,
Tell the truth !... my AJ Player scare the aj team to death so your staff work day and night to launch this as soon as possible, because you people fear that my aj player will overwhelm the internet right ? haha… than I fall from my bed…sorry
Congrats Scott, I will test, it looks coool !!!!
good stuff , i'm trying the WP version atm. it defaults to a pretty low playback volume, is there a way to alter this or is it 'hard coded' ?
Just put the player on my blog. Extremely easy to configure and looks really nice. Awesome job.
A quick question: What would be the best way to consolidate both my exclusive as well as non-exclusive tracks into a single player instance? Creating and "triggering" a collection of all my tracks?


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With the visual for Drake's "Best I Ever Had" having been so anticipated, it was expected that director Kanye West would enlist nothing less than premium beauties for Drizzy's supporting cast. The busty pack's standout, though, is California angel Shakur: a real-life Egyptian doll with a personality as gangsta as her anime curves (34DD-23-36). The former commercial child model is from the West, her strongest passions are music and theater, and she owns the birth name of a hip-hop demigod. No wonder all eyes are on her.
Were you the only model that didn't have to try out for the video?
Yeah. Kanye called me and said he was shooting the video. He said, "You do your acting thing, [so] it would be dope for you to do." He told me the treatment, and it wasn't the typical "video-girl" role. I knew the record was the most-anticipated video.
How did you land the most lines in the video?
We were on set, and 'Ye pulled me to the side. [He said,] "Drake, you're an actor. Shakur, you're an actress. Improvise the shit." Drake came from Degrassi, [so] it's easy when you have natural talent next to you.
Double D's don't hurt either. Are you 100 percent real?
People think I have all fake body parts. [This is] all my hair, all my everything. I take it as a compliment, like, "Wow, you think I look so good that I have to be fake?"
You come from a traditional Egyptian family, where your mom is very submissive. Are you the same?
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I went on BCP due to a series of cysts that formed and then subsequently burst, all on my right ovary. My gyne advised me to start on BCP to prevent this from happening, and put me on a 42 day cycle - 42 days on BCP, 3 days off (so 3 day periods every 42 days.. it was sweet.)
Now I met with my gyne mid-March to review a recent ultrasound, and she confirmed that the cyst had shrunk significantly, and I asked if we could start TTCing, and she said yes!
So that night before bed I laid out the pack of BCP and a pack of prenatal vitamins my gyne had given me and asked DH which I should take, and we both agreed to take the prenatal vitamins.
I stopped taking BCP mid-to-late March, and I got a period on April 4 that lasted for 4 days.
I then got a period on April 19 that was much more regular, and I assumed was me "going back to normal" with my periods.. next period was May 18. Through these two cycles I haven't noticed much EWCM (I used to get A LOT when I was on BCP.. why is that??)
Wondering for those ladies out there in a somewhat similar situation how long after you went off BCP did your fertility cycles return to normal and did you conceive? Do you think that being on a 42 day cycle for almost a year will negatively affect me and cause me to take longer to go back to a normal cycle?
Everyone has different reactions to BCPs, so it's hard to know until you have a few more months of charting your cycles. I would suggest charting your temperatures to make sure that you are ovulating, and that your luteal phase is long enough. BCPs caused my luteal phase to be too short (7-8 days when you need at least 10 days for pregnancy). I first tried Vitex to correct this, but after 6 months and no change, and decided to stop taking it and take Vitamin B6 instead. It immediately turned my 7 day LP to 10 day LP, then the next month it was 11 days. I also noticed more EWCM during this time. I conceived within a couple months of the B6, but miscarried that pregnancy. I then conceived again 2 months later and am just starting the third trimester.
I hope you are like most and that the BCPs didn't affect your fertility/cycles! Good luck with TTC!
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Thanks for the tips! I think I may start taking B6 right away.. can't harm any, can it?
What dosage did you take? Did you take with meals?
I would start out with 50 mg of B6, and take it with your Prenatal so that you are getting the other B vitamins at the same time. I personally took 100 mg of B6, but that's pretty much the maximum to take so I wouldn't start out right away on that, especially if you're not sure your luteal phase is even a problem. Make sure you also look to see how much B6 is in your Prenatal so that you're not going over the limit. Mine only had 2 mg of B6, but some can have up to 25 mg. After I got my BFP, I slowly decreased my dosage (many doctors recommend 25-50 mg per day of B6 to help with morning sickness so I slowly decreased down to 25 mg).
I hope others chime in too to see what their experience was TTC after going off BCPs. Wishing you a quick TTC journey!
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I was on BCP for more than 10 years, including about 5 years of 90 day cycles (3 packs at a time of active pills, then one week of AF .. now that was great!) I came off the pills at the end of Dec and we have been TTC since. Before going on the pill, I was a regular 28-29 day cycle. My first cycle off the pill was longer than that, but has since stabilized. I've been 26-19 days since them - more variable than before the pill but I'm not sure if that is due to the pill itself or the fact that I'm a lot older now.
I second the recommendation to temp and take B6. It sounds like your cycles may be stabilizing but temping is the only way to know for sure if you are O'ing. Many women on the pill develop a vitamin b deficiency, and since it is required to make progesterone and sustain a viable LP, this can cause trouble TTC. I started taking a B complex last month and it has definitely made a difference - I went from an 11 day LP with 3 days of pre-AF spotting (which NEVER happened before I went on BCP) to a 12 day LP with almost no spotting. This month with the B vitamins just "feels" more like my old cycles. I have definitely ovulated the last two months, with no BFP yet despite good timing, so we'll see how much difference there is from "normalizing" to conceiving. I would call this last cycle my first "normal" one.
Good luck!
Thanks ladies! My first "normal" (?) cycle was 29 days, and this most recent one was 32 days (my normal used to be 31-32 days), so it sounds like I'm getting on track again (yay!). I am CD2 today, and going to go buy a bbt thermometer today after work, to start taking temps tomorrow morning!
Here's hoping for a quick and easy BFP.. I don't know why, but I really have the feeling that this will be the month we conceive.. I guess we'll see if I'm right in 30 days! =)
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In short, while the rules William lists are good, solid rules, they won't
stop P2P or IM.
On Mar 31, 2005 1:02 PM, William Arlofski <waa dash m0n0wall at revpol dot com> wrote:
> Don Munyak wrote:
> > What types of traffic are you blocking from a business perspective ? I
> > am just curious about what traffic I might want to block in the LAN
> > outbound direction..ie P2P, IM, 445 ports.
> When I set up a firewall for my clients, ALL outbound traffic is blocked
> to start with. Then, individual ports are opened for specific, required
> services, but usually only to specific external servers providing the
> service.
> Outbound port 80 and 443 are opened for all clients for web browsing,
> unless a proxy/caching server is installed at which time, those ports
> are opened only for the cache server. Then, all client web-browsing
> requests must pass through the proxy/caching server. Saves bandwidth and
> provides logging, content filtering and auditing capabilities.
> Outbound FTP is opened when/if the client needs it. Same as above if a
> cache server is on-site.
> Outbound port 25 is allowed ONLY for the internal email server. All
> internal clients are set to use internal email server for sending email.
> If there is no internal email server, then outbound port 25 is allowed
> for internal clients, but only to their ISP's email server. This helps
> to mitigate zombie spam machines from spewing out their crap without it
> being logged locally or at the upstream ISP.
> Port 110/143 is only opened to their own, company run or
> company-approved email server. Generally email on these servers has been
> virus-scanned and/or filtered through RBLs and/or Spamassassin/Razor.
> (oh and Outlook is discouraged whenever possible)
> Services like NTP, and DNS are opened ONLY for their internal NTP and
> DNS server(s). All clients are configured to use the internal servers
> for these services.
> Then, as needs arise (like sites that run web servers on NON-standard
> ports) ports are opened as required.
> Paranoid? You bet.
> YMMV, but my clients are normally happy with these type of restrictions,
> and actually never really even notice them since all services still work
> as needed/expected. Plus with outbound blocking of all but necessary
> services, they are being "good netizens" as well.
> Hope this helps.
> -
> Bill Arlofski
> waa dash m0n0wall at revpol dot com
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A2 a main meal eaten in the evening :
Why don't you come to/for supper tonight?
They had an early supper before going to the theatre.
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Pandaramic Love Photographer
About Me
so i'm completely new to this modeling thing. i'm more used to being behind the lens (#179884), but i've had people tell me that i should give being in front of it a go, so i thought i would. as of right now, i only have self portraiture shots i've done. all my modeling is done on a TFP/TFCD basis unless i REALLYREALLY want to work with the photographer... and there's very few of those.
since i'm new to modeling, i don't really have a set style i do. i'm open to pretty much anything except pornography. artistic nudes are alright, but anything lude and raunchy is out of the question.
as of right now i'm based in lexington, kentucky. i often make trips to cincinnati, ohio for photography business, so making a trip for modeling is fine as well. i'll model in the surrounding areas of lexington and cincinnati and places between. anything too far away will be considered.
just to let you know, i have two tattoo's. one on my right deltoid and one just under my navel. i have two lip piercings and my nostril as well. my ears are gauged to a 16 but i plan on going up. my hair is currently pink and black though i'll be going brunette here soon. i have a large number of scars on my left arm from a car accident as well as a scar across my right shoulder blade from heart surgery. this is all just for your information.
!!!!!! i'll probably be moving to the south florida in september. actually i'm banking on it. but because of this i won't be able to do much of any shooting, least not for free (time = money when you're moving) and i don't expect a photographer to pay me for my time. agencies pay models, not photographers. so for now i'm only doing the shoots i have set in stone and that's it. after that i may pick up one or two, but probably only for photographer's i've worked with before, and def only ones in lexington and the IMMEDIATE surrounding areas (again those i've worked with excluded). so if you wanted to work with me... sorry you didn't get the chance to this year, but i'll probably be back for christmas and around the new year, so maybe we could do something? but until then.... SUP FLORIDA I'M COMIN' HOME!!!!!!
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The world is changing before our eyes. There are open source projects out there that aim to change the very way we run our data centers, manage complex systems and deliver software.
Just this week, I learned about Apache Mesos and a commercial company built on top of it called Mesosphere. They want to change the way you manage data centers by treating the compute power as a single entity using container technology to isolate individual processes. The idea is to provide elastic resources so that each server fills up to the extent possible before using another. This is a much more efficient way to deal with datacenter resources in general, and today's cloud-based applications, which tend to require much greater scale than applications from previous generations.
Mesosphere also created a program called Marathon, which acts a wrapper around Linux programs and according to an article on Enterprise Tech, "gives those Linux applications the resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance that Mesos delivers." According to TechTarget, "In programming, a wrapper is a program or script that sets the stage and makes possible the running of another, more important program."
I also learned about Docker, a project that places applications inside a container –there's that word again –and allows developers to make changes to the program sitting inside the container without altering the way it's way it's delivered. The end result is that when you make a change, instead of breaking what you have, it updates the system smoothly pleasing IT because it ensures stability and developers because they can make changes without fear of breaking things.
On Tuesday, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise LInux 7.0. It boasts scripts to help automate moving from an older version or Red Hat to the latest version, identifying areas that could be problems and giving guidance on what you need to fix before pulling the trigger. What's more it includes deployment templates with different resources based on particular usage profiles to get you the resources you need for a given deployment type.
All of these tools have one thing in common. They provide a way to deliver software and services or manage the datacenter more efficiently with less effort. They help remove complexity and help IT pros, sys admins and developers work smarter, and they help balance the needs of Dev and Ops.
In today's world, these two entities are supposed to be working more closely than ever, but that's not always the case in reality. The more tools that they can access to bridge their differences, the smoother the relationship is likely to be.
The common thread among these many tools is open source, which gives companies and individuals equal access to the underlying technology. Given the opportunity to build things, people tend to step up because there isn't anything in their way.
And when that happens, everybody wins. While proprietary vendors try to keep tight control of the product, open source products welcome outside help and that drives innovation. And that innovation is changing the way we do business in fairly dramatic ways.
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They couldn't be farther apart in age, one about to start college, the others on the cusp of octogenarians, but this year's Glendora Community Heroes are cut from the same cloth.
Young hero Chandni Israni and adult heroes Keith and Dottie Hilliard had not met before being named 2012 Los Angeles County Fair Community Heroes. The Community Heroes are honored as part of the Fair's Community Days program, which celebrates neighboring cities.
Glendora's Day at the Fair, which occurred Sept. 12, featured a parade and informational booths from organizations in the community. Citrus College also celebrated its Day at the Fair the same day. The Hilliards and Israni were honored during a presentation ceremony after the parade.
Chandni Israni, junior community hero
Keeping up with Israni can be difficult. The 18-year-old talks a mile a minute, but for good reason — her time is valuable.
It's amazing the 2012 Glendora High graduate had time to sleep at all during her senior year, between AP classes, Girl Scouts and her involvement with volunteering and extracurricular activities.
"It (senior year) was harder than the other three years but I was able to manage it nicely," Israni said. "It was fun being able to plan all of the events and give back to the community."
She got her start in volunteering early, Israni said, when she joined the Girl Scouts in fourth grade. Israni remembers working at a homeless shelter and collecting food donations for Shepherd's Pantry at a young age, exposing her to the satisfaction of community service.
As she got older, she started getting involved in the planning of a "Camporee," which is where the Senior Girl Scouts plan a camping trip for the younger girls.
"It's up to us to plan the events and you get a lot of leadership skills and organizing," she said. "I like organizing events."
At Glendora, Israni began joining clubs and getting involved in activities that reflected her interests. By her senior year, she was involved with the Key Club, the Kiwanis International high school organization; president of the National Honor Society; and president of the ALS club, which she helped start at the school.
"When I was 13 my father passed away with ALS," or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, she said. Most patients live two to five years after diagnosis of ALS, a disease of the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement. Israni's father had a year and a half.
"Right when he was diagnosed he lost walking, then movement in his arms and his voice," she said. "(With the club) we wanted to spread awareness of the disease because not that many people had heard about it."
Through her connections in ALS support groups, Israni found out about a Pasadena boy who was 18 and diagnosed with ALS, so she spearheaded a fashion show benefit in her junior and senior years. The fundraiser helped contribute toward an Apple iPad for the ALS patient in 2011, and in 2012 raised $400 for a classmate who had been diagnosed with cancer, she said.
"Usually ALS patients are 40 or older, so I was shocked to find out about him (the Pasadena boy Hajime Miyasaki)," Israni said. "And in the beginning of senior year we found out that one of our classmates. Chris Vega, wasn't going to be able to attend school anymore because he was diagnosed with leukemia."
Israni will be starting her freshman year at Cal Poly Pomona next week to pursue a major in business administration, she said.
"Everyone tells me college is the best time of your life, so I'm ready to meet new people," she said.
Keith and Dottie Hilliard, adult community heroes
When it comes to love stories, the Hilliards take the cake. The junior high sweethearts attended school together through their college years, until they graduated from the University of Redlands in 1955. The couple got married a month after graduation and moved to Glendora a year later.
The retired educators have been involved in youth activities for many years, between working at local schools and raising two children. Keith was the first football coach at Azusa High School the year it opened, and was everything from a coach, counselor, teacher and principal in the Azusa and Glendora districts, while Dottie taught at both the college and high school levels.
"You were also a tennis coach at Glendora High School and Citrus College," Keith reminded his wife.
"Oh yeah, I forgot I did that," she exclaimed, which goes to show how many activities the pair have been involved in. The list goes on, from Lassie League to Girl Scouts, coaching swimming, basketball, tennis. For most of the programs available to Glendora's youth, the Hilliards were present at their very beginnings.
"We joined whatever was going to help our kids and in doing so, we feel that we contributed to the programs as well," Dottie said.
As the children, Bonnie Jean and Robbie, grew older, the Hilliards began dedicating more of their time to causes, joining the executive boards of groups like the area's equestrian club, Foothill Presbyterian Hospital Foundation, Glendora Public Library and the Rotary Club.
Dottie is active on Glendora's trails commission and writes horse legislation to protect horse property and trails, she said.
Their most recent project has been the Mended Hearts rehabilitation group at Intercommunity Hospital, after Dottie suffered a heart attack in May.
"I've met so many neat people (at Mended Hearts), it's our new group and I've already volunteered," Dottie said. "I said, 'OK, all of you people who like horses, just come on over.'
"You just can't say no sometimes."
The Hilliards are also proud grandparents, with a grandson in a Ph.D. program at USC and a granddaughter in her senior year at Dana Hills High School.
Being named Community Heroes was a surprise, though.
"We went to the Concerts in the Park (in Glendora) and two of my former students from Citrus College are retired Glendora police officers," Dottie said. "They congratulated us and we thought, 'OK, they must know, so I guess it's really happening.' "
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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 60,
October 2009 Abstract Supplement
The 2009 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting
Philadelphia October 16-21, 2009.
LANtern (Lupus Asian Network): Evaluation of An Innovative National Program
Tran, M., Horton, R., Yee, A., Paget, S.
Launched in 2003 with a mission to support, empower, and enhance quality of life for Asian-Americans with SLE and their loved ones, Hospital for Special Surgery's LANtern (Lupus Asian Network) is a national resource for its peer based telephone SupportLine and bilingual Chinese educational publications. This complex illness affects Asian-Americans 23x as often as whites.
We developed a telephone evaluation for the 101 SupportLine users with lupus or family members who used the program from 2003 2006. The 31-item survey consisted of Likert scale and open-ended questions to assess user demographics, program satisfaction, SLE impact, and service recommendations. Interviews were conducted in users' preferred language, English or Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese), by 2 volunteers not otherwise linked with the program.
We completed 24 interviews. Attrition was due to address change, lack of return calls, or refusal. Of our sample, 22 were female; 18 with SLE; 5 were parents and 1 adult child; 21 were born in other countries, with the majority from China (50%) and Hong Kong (21%). Most callers (42%) were between ages 4655, followed by 2635 (25%). More than half (54%) were monolingual in their native language/dialects, in contrast with a few (13%) in English only.
Fifty percent had SLE < 5 yrs and 33% had SLE >10 yrs. Almost half (46%) stated that SLE interfered with their everyday life or the lives of their loved ones with SLE most of the time, employment (63%), relationship with spouse/partner (42%), and social activities (42%). Considerable anxiety about the future was expressed (63% sometimes/very often). A majority of those with lupus (59%) reported being a burden to their family sometimes/very often, while 50% reported sometimes feeling down, depressed or hopeless.
Most users (55%) learned of LANtern via Chinese media, health fairs and word of mouth; an additional 37% were referred by social service/health care agencies. Initial contact was prompted very much by a desire to learn more about the illness (54%) and to relieve psycho-social concerns (34%). A significant number (71%) indicated a better understanding about lupus and the receipt of emotional support, and 55% felt less alone, despite the contacts being brief, with 63% reporting 12 contacts and 25% 35. 67% reported "very important" that the person they spoke with has a similar cultural or language background. Program satisfaction was high, with 92% reporting being extremely/satisfied, and 96% would recommend the program to others. Additional service needs were also assessed, with recommendations consistent, culturally and linguistically, with their reported desire of peer connections, and family/group oriented activities.
Our results, though limited by a small sample size, underscore that a culturally relevant service need is being met through our telephone peer counseling model for a community reporting significant impact of SLE on their lives. Additional program modalities have since been explored and enhanced for service expansion.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Tran, M., Horton, R., Yee, A., Paget, S.; LANtern (Lupus Asian Network): Evaluation of An Innovative National Program [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2009;60 Suppl 10 :1860
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BOMA Kansas City offers a year-round schedule of services, programs, and activities designed to support the professional development of its members, represent their common interests, and provide them with a means of building and maintaining industry business relationships.
Members of BOMA Kansas City are automatically members of BOMA International, and have the national groups entire range of information, representation and educational services available to them. BOMA Kansas City also works with the Building Owners and Managers Institute (BOMI) in Arnold, Maryland, to bring the groups professional educational services to the Kansas City area.
BOMA Kansas City is incorporated as a non-profit [IRS Code section 501 (c) (6)] organization, governed by a 14-person Board of Directors elected by the membership.
The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) includes BOMA International, representing 100 North American and nine overseas association in Australia, Brazil, Finland, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and South Africa. BOMA International, founded in 1907, represents a combined total of more than 8.5 billion square feet of office space.
Both BOMA International and BOMA Kansas City are very active at the national and state level on legislative and regulatory issues that impact members on a daily basis. Both have established enviable reputations for success.
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Kitten in Sheffield eats 15cm TV aerial and survives
A kitten had a lucky escape after he swallowed a 15cm TV aerial and survived.
Alphie required emergency surgery when the metal antenna became lodged in his oesophagus and stomach.
Owner Vanessa Waite, 36, of Parson Cross, Sheffield, had only owned the young tabby for a few days when he managed to eat the rod.
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Best Of :: Food & Drink
When Tony's decided to open a new market, complete with a small restaurant, close to downtown Denver last year, it made a critical move: It applied for a liquor license that covered not just the bistro, but the entire building. As a result, Tony's now offers one of the greatest grocery-shopping amenities imaginable: You can buy a glass of wine or a beer and sip it as you do your shopping, sampling whatever free snacks the market has put out. And Tony's also has a more formal happy hour in the bistro, from 3 to 6 p.m., with drink and food specials — including a terrific meatball slider for just $2 that's a meal in itself. Special bonus: On most Friday evenings, Tony's also offers live music.
Rise and Shine Biscuit Kitchen and Cafe, a pioneering little enterprise that shares the same Crestmoor quarters as Basil Doc's Pizza, buzzes with a heavy trade of moms toting toddlers in state-of-the-art strollers, java guzzlers and bread heads who show up bright and early for the flaky, fresh-baked buttermilk biscuits — pudgy, warm in the center and delicious on their own or slathered with butter, jam or honey. Naked, they're just $1.25; add jam or honey for another two bits. Owner and master biscuit-maker Seth Rubin always offers a biscuit of the day — bacon cheddar, Nutella, smoked Gouda and rosemary olive oil have all been recent offerings — and on Fridays, he bakes batches of beer biscuits with brews from Great Divide Brewing Company.
The champagne just keeps flowing at the Dom Perignon Sunday Brunch, offered from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. every week in Ellyngton's, the elegant corner dining room at the Brown Palace. And the brunch buffet spread is just as sumptuous as the surroundings: There are stations that make waffles and omelets to order; stations that carve up huge haunches of meat and dish up fresh fish; salad and sushi stations; pastry stations overflowing with incredible confections. The buffet alone will run you $46.95, but since this is food fit for a king, you might as well treat yourself royally and fork over the $186.95 that will let you brunch with Dom.
Rosa Linda's Mexican Cafe marked its 25th anniversary this year — 25 years of serving up some of the city's best Mexican food in a northwest Denver neighborhood that was beyond sketchy when Rosa Linda's first opened and is now the hottest restaurant neighborhood in the city. To celebrate this big birthday, the Aguirre family decided to give the entire city a present: weekly specials that roll prices back to 1985. In honor of the restaurant's very first Best of Denver win, through April 7 the special is the Best of Denver Combo: one shredded beef or chicken burrito, one chile relleno, both smothered in green with a side of rice and beans, for just $5.95. But even ordering off Rosa Linda's regular menu, you can get a big dinner for under ten bucks — and the incredible hospitality from this friendly family is all free.
Put this in your pipe and smoke it: If you like your coffee strong and the atmosphere in which you drink it just as pungent, head for Gypsy House Cafe. The specialty here is Turkish coffee, which is a leap for the Starbucks connoisseur, but it's well worth the plunge. The food is good, the wi-fi is free — and they'll hook you up with just the right tobacco for your hookah.
Happy has made a number of adjustments since it opened in early 2009 as Happy Noodle House, most of them very smart (and earning this Big Red F venture a nod from Forbes in its "America's Best New Restaurants" lists). But none of the developments have been as happy as the evolution of the Bitter Bar, Happy's "late-night alter ego," where mixologist and partner James Lee (named one of the country's top ten mixologists by Playboy Magazine) has turned the handcrafted cocktail into a contemporary art form. At the Bitter Bar, what's old is brand-spanking-new again, as the staff gives an original twist to traditional cocktails, using local, organic, fresh ingredients — and very fresh thinking. Lee shares that thinking at regular cocktail classes that have become one of the hottest tickets in town.


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If a beauty-pageant question was put to Miss Universe Australia, Olivia Wells, about the problem facing Third World countries, she would say: ''Children born with facial deformities.''
Ms Wells, 19, is not into platitudes. The Loreto Mandeville Hall graduate is studying medicine and surgery at Monash University and planning a trip to Peru and Cambodia with Operation Smile, a charity aligned with the pageant that provides free surgery.
Cleft lips are in stark contrast to the lustrous smiles of Miss Universe contestants with earnest do-good intent, but Ms Wells, a brunette, was the dark horse who came from nowhere with a history of volunteer and charity work.
When beating 30 Australian beauties last July, there were stares and whispers, even ridicule, from the competitive pageant community waiting to be caricatured in a Baz Luhrmann film.
''I quite enjoyed the feeling of being an underdog,'' Ms Wells said. That she was because she entered as a joke, couldn't find a designer to dress her and hadn't been groomed to land the crown and sash by Dear Pageant Girl, a training program run by Peter Sereno, who charges about $200 an hour to advise on styling, walking and talking.
Ms Wells is not the typical pageant belle with a hunger to be on TV or follow in the celebrity stiletto footsteps of previous winners Jennifer Hawkins, Rachael Finch or Jesinta Campbell.
''I've used a beauty pageant to further my career as a doctor. I'm so grateful for that.'' After deferring medicine for a year, ''Miss Altruism'' has become an ambassador for the Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
She's not the only one to karate chop the stereotype. The director of Miss Universe Australia, Deborah Miller, finds social-media-savvy medical students, lawyers, policewomen and truckies in the preliminary rounds among 7000 hopefuls. ''All the girls want to brand themselves,'' Ms Miller said.
Due to demand, Ms Miller created the Australian Pageant Academy and its first two-day course in May has sold out after 22 belles happily parted with $400 but will take home a giftbag.
Ms Wells represented Australia in the Donald Trump-backed Miss Universe competition against 86 others in Moscow last November and had a brief encounter with The Donald. ''He was really nice and sweet and a lot more down to earth than I expected.''
American and South American stunners spend up to $15,000 on training and their faces would be more agape at the price if it wasn't for the fillers and Botox pioneered by the made-to-order pageant country, Venezuela.
Melbourne beauties are poised for the state final on May 13 and the national final on June 6. Ms Wells, who relinquishes her crown in July and resumes her studies, has some advice: ''You should not enter a pageant to win a pageant. It's a chance to be recognised for contributing to the community.''
Miss Universe contestants are used to questions but Ms Wells experienced the most bizarre one backstage. A contestant asked her: ''Can you walk?'' She replied: ''I've been walking all my life.''


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Great motherboard for the price.
Pros: Near comparable to the ASUS P8Z68 and around $50 less.
Cons: Not many options for water cooling the mobo.
If you're looking to get a P8Z68 but don't quite want to spend the asking price, a P8P67 is the closest thing to it and very near comparable for about $50 less.


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