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Why do Military men date and marry civilian girls? Are military chicks ugly?
I've noticed that the majority of military men are married to civilians. Why? Are military women considered to be ugly and more likely diseased(I heard).
- Asked by Female, Who Cares?
You sound like an idiot. For starters, only 14% of the military is women so obviously very few can have a military wife. Secondly STI tests are required every six months so you CAN'T be diseased. Military men can easily get civilian women without trying because civilans women will fall over backwards for a guy in uniform regardless if he is a jerk or idiot. Women in the military obviously do not have the same fascination with them as they are in the same boat.
- Response by A Creative, Female, 22-25
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No, military women aren't ugly OR diseased. Whoever TOLD you that is a moron. A LOT of couples are both in the military. My son and his wife are BOTH military. And, neither are ugly OR diseased.
- Response by roaminginsomniac, An Alternative Girl, Female, 46-55, Law Enforcement
Well first of all there are way more men in the military than women so they can't all have military wives. Also you have to look at family life. With both parents in the service you have the possibility of deploying and at the same time. Who would be home with the kids if that were to happen?????
- Response by misskitty420, A Cool Mom, Female, 29-35, Student
Could be an ego thing.
- Response by stiffkittenbabelfish, Female, 29-35, Teaching
you are right on here,of course military women are ugly. the few the proud the diseased......
- Response by jefndal, A Guy Critical, Male, 46-55, Dallas, Celebrity
Because men tend to outnumber women in the military. Also it's a helluva lot easier to have a civilian spouse than it is a military one. Being in the military is a tough operation, and having your spouse also on assignment (don't kid yourself it happens) is stressful on top of the stress you already have.
- Response by lioness21, A Player, Female, 29-35, Consulting
My military boyfriend didnt want to date a civilian for ages and he felt like it would ruin her life, like if she had a good job and he is forced to move, could he ask her to move for him. But dating military girls didnt work out so well for him. Sometimes when you work with people so closely you stop thinking of them in a romantic light. Also he wants to distance himself from the military and have a life outside of it.
- Response by tuala, A Creative, Female, 26-28, Student
No one has brought up the fact that fraternization between soldiers of different ranks is outlawed which makes it very challenging though not impossible for a male and female soldier to have a relationship that could lead to marriage.
- Response by wiserman, A Creative, Female, 56-65, Who Cares?
I know a couple who is dating and they are both in the military, however they both got in trouble. They were both different ranks and she wound up pregnant...
- Response by ashlyna813, A Sweet Sarah, Female, 26-28, Charlotte, Student
Fact is, most military women are GAY, first. Then the vast majority that are left (that are a little tiny sliver of the military), well they're just ugly.
- Response by An Intellectual Guy, Male, 36-45, Teaching
I think women in uniforms are hot, especially military, I prefer the dress uniform over the BDU.
- Response by junior113, A Guy Critical, Male, 29-35, Other Profession
Civilian women think of a man in uniform to be like a knight in shining armour. I'm military and have always had a thing for the military guys because I thought it was sexy. Truth of the matter is that sex appeal isn't everything if they came in straight out of high school because they still have that mentality. My boyfriend is a civilian, and, even though things can be extremely difficult at times, I wouldn't have it any other way.
- Response by mrdb51, A Career Woman, Female, 22-25, Dallas, Military


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1. Do I have to report to some one that I just received a deposit in my bank account today for $3,500.00 and it has to do with my 401k plan which I requested to withdraw from my previous employer?
2. How does it affect my disability claim? I never reported I was expecting this money because I really wasn't. That was a decision I made much after I filed for disability on 1/5/2010.
3. How could I confirm that a fax I sent to my disability examiner was in deed received by him? He sent me some forms to fill out and I faxed them all to the number on the form. I have a confirmation that the fax was transmitted but I don't know if he ever processed it or over look it. I called him once and he didn't respond my call so I am afraid of calling again.
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Social Security is not a need based disability program, so there are no income or resource limits. Income and resources only apply to SSI disability, because, by contrast, it is a need based disability program.
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Regarding your second question: As I stated above, the money will only affect SSI eligibility versus Social Security disability eligibility. Most individuals who file for both SSI and SS disability benefits lose their eligibility for SSI when they become entitled to their Social Security benefits. That's because Social Security benefits are usually over the income limit for the SSI program.
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Kurt Godel and the Foundations of Mathematics: Horizons of Truthby Matthias Baaz
Commemorates the life, work and foundational views of Kurt Gödel by exploring the impact of his work on current research and its future implications.See more details below
Commemorates the life, work and foundational views of Kurt Gödel by exploring the impact of his work on current research and its future implications.
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Table of ContentsPart I. Historical Context – Gödel's Contributions and Accomplishments:
1. The impact of Gödel's incompleteness theorems on mathematics Angus Macintyre
2. Logical hygiene, foundations, and abstractions:
diversity among aspects and options Georg Kreisel
3. The reception of Gödel's 1931 incompletabilty theorems by mathematicians, and some logicians, to the early 1960s Ivor Grattan-Guinness
4. 'Dozent Gödel will not lecture' Karl Sigmund
5. Gödel's thesis:
an appreciation Juliette C. Kennedy
6. Lieber Herr Bernays!, Lieber Herr Gödel! Gödel on finitism, constructivity, and Hilbert's program Solomon Feferman
7. Computation and intractability:
echoes of Kurt Gödel Christos H. Papadimitriou
8. From the entscheidungsproblem to the personal computer – and beyond B. Jack Copeland
9. Gödel, Einstein, Mach, Gamow, and Lanczos:
Gödel's remarkable excursion into cosmology Wolfgang Rindler
10. Physical unknowables Karl Svozil
Part II. A Wider Vision – The Interdisciplinary, Philosophical, And Theological Implications of Gödel's Work:
11. Gödel and physics John D. Barrow
12. Gödel, Thomas Aquinas, and the unknowability of God Denys A. Turner
13. Gödel's mathematics of philosophy Piergiorgio Odifreddi
14. Gödel's ontological proof and its variants Petr Hájek
15. The Gödel theorem and human nature Hilary Putnam
16. Gödel, the mind, and the laws of physics Roger Penrose
Part III. New Frontiers – Beyond Gödel's Work in Mathematics and Symbolic Logic:
17. Gödel's functional interpretation and its use in current mathematics Ulrich Kohlenbach
18. My forty years on his shoulders Harvey M. Friedman
19. My interaction with Kurt Gödel:
the man and his work Paul J. Cohen
20. The transfinite universe W. Hugh Woodin
21. The Gödel phenomena in mathematics:
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Comics by Anne Emond tap into the insanity of modern life
By Gerry Mak in New Art on Wednesday 7 March 2012
Anne Emond's honest, clever, and hilarious comics tap into the slow-burning insanity and isolation that is modern living and modern culture. Totally rad.
Paper stained-glass windows made by Eric Standley
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Baltimore Free Farm to launch a sustainable prawn farm
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New web show by Ze Frank
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Ze Frankwas really one of the first internet celebrities that caught my attention. His web show really got me through a work day. I'm glad he's starting them up again.
Freelancers Are the New Pirates
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Mary H.K. Choi just had an article in Wired about how we all secretly aspire to be pirates, and that freelancers are a form of modern day pirates. For me, I guess it depends on whether or not you are playing by your own rules or by someone else's (like a client).
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Hand Reflexology Massager
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This fucking thing is terrifying. It looks like it's going to poke a million needles into your hand or electrocute you. It clames to be a reflexology hand massager, but couldn't they have made it look less clinical?
Wearable Kinetic Sculptures by Dukno Yoon
By Gerry Mak in New Design on Tuesday 6 March 2012
Korean metal artisan Dukno Yoon creates really amazing kinetic sculptures that are worn like jewelry and move based on the wearer's own movements.
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Online copy of JoyStick magazine from April 1983
By Gerry Mak in New Trends on Tuesday 6 March 2012
My friend, who is a video-game designer, just posted this link to a PDF of an entire 1983 issue of JoyStick magazine, a rag devoted to video game culture and design.
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Luminous Intervention: a public art project in Baltimore
By Gerry Mak in New Art on Tuesday 6 March 2012
I have some serious issues with the Occupy brand and culture these days, but I met some cool artist types through the movement, and we're trying to do awesome stuff in Baltimore with a projector. Help us out.
New epic book sculptures from Brian Dettmer
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I've posted some artists who have carved sculptures out of books before, but Brian Dettmer really takes this whole genre to a crazy level.
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Connor Kizer performs 'I Put A Spell On You'
By Gerry Mak in New Music on Tuesday 28 February 2012
Another performance from the slow dance night I went to was this dead-on version of I Put A Spell On You by Connor Kizer of The Creepers. His was my favorite of the night because I'm a huge Screamin' Jay Hawkins fan, and Connor really did the song justice.
Jenn Wasner performs Real Talk by R. Kelly
By Gerry Mak in New Music on Tuesday 28 February 2012
I recently went to an awesome event that consisted of a bunch of Baltimore musicians and performers covering classic slow-dance songs. Here is Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes doing R. Kelly's Real Talk. Definitely one of the best of the many stunning performances of the night.


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When it comes to smartphones that feature ultra-thin bodies, Oppo Finder can be seen as reference, but it appears that it might have a rival to the title, in the form of Vivo X1.
The handset has just emerged online in a series of leaked press photos that show a 6.55mm ultra-thin body, along with a large 4.7-inch touchscreen display that can deliver a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution.
The new device is expected to become available for purchase in China sometime in November, and is said to pack Qi Wireless Charging inside, the same as Nokia's new Lumia 920 smartphone does.
The handset will arrive on shelves with a 1GHz Mediatek MT6577 Cortex-A9 processor inside, PowerVR SGX540 GPU, an 8-megapixel camera on the back, and the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system on board.


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Cleveland Clinic's Department of Plastic Surgery sponsors two to four visiting professors each year. Additionally, the regional plastic surgery community joins Cleveland Clinic in sponsoring visiting professors, who are leaders in their fields. This gives our residents the opportunity to interact on a regular basis with the leaders in our field in a far more intimate fashion than is possible at regional or national meetings. The staff and residents spend time with the visiting professor at lectures, discussions and dinners.
Each resident is appointed a faculty advisor early in his or her first year. The advisor acts to both focus the resident's clinical research and to shepherd the resident through his or her clinical training.
In addition to evaluations at the end of each rotation, our residents undergo a semiannual review to examine both strengths and areas to focus educational efforts. The written in-service examination is taken each year by our residents and is another tool used to determine areas of focus for the residency.
Our plastic surgery residents have opportunities to teach junior residents and medical students in clinic, hospital and surgical settings. Opportunities also exist for presentations to staff at Cleveland Clinic. Additionally, Cleveland Clinic's medical school program, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University offers additional learning and teaching opportunities to our residents. Our residents have been involved in anatomy labs with the medical school and have the opportunity to take classes related to teaching and administration.
Our plastic surgery resident clinic is an opportunity for senior residents to see cosmetic surgery patients independently under the direction of a faculty member. This clinic gives our residents the ability to improve upon their aesthetic surgery knowledge as well as learn the nuances of patient interaction in an aesthetic clinic setting. The residents formulate a plan, present it to the supervising staff, act as primary surgeon and are responsible for near and long term follow up of the patients. This is an opportunity to make decisions with the comfort of experienced cosmetic surgeons in consultation. Emphasis is placed on developing not only clinical and surgical skills, but also those that apply specifically to a private cosmetic practice.
Cleveland Clinic's Department of Plastic Surgery is heavily invested in promoting scholarly activity amongst faculty and residents alike. While residents have no significant basic science research requirement, each resident is expected to complete one clinical research project per year. In the year 2011 alone, the Department of Plastic Surgery published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. The Plastic Surgery research program is directed by Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, whose lab focuses on research in microsurgery, peripheral nerve, wound healing and craniofacial biology. Dr. Siemionow is supported by three research fellows, and a full-time laboratory technician and teaching assistant. Ample opportunity for both internal and external funding exists. The research laboratory is 1800 square feet of space designated solely to plastic surgery.
Our Plastic Surgery residents may have the opportunity to attend national conferences, depending on their resident training level and research activity. Our residents have attended the following national conferences:
The Department of Plastic Surgery runs a busy Microsurgery training lab. Training in Microsurgery is directed to surgeons in the following specialties: plastic surgery, orthopaedic and hand surgery, as well as general surgery, neurosurgery, urology, gynecology, and otolaryngology. The courses are also directed to trainees in those specialties and researchers who seek training in practical microsurgery at either of two levels, basic course for one week, or advanced course for one week.
Microsurgery courses are held on a weekly basis throughout the year. The five-day course runs from 8 am– 5 pm, Monday through Friday, excluding the weeks with holidays.
The microsurgery laboratory accommodates five trainees at a time. The courses utilize videotapes and direct one-on-one teaching. All surgical procedures are performed on laboratory rats. All instruments, suture material, and microscopes used are of the highest standards available. Each trainee will have access to a Zeiss operating microscope and one-on-one instruction.
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The Integrated Plastic Surgery Residency at Cleveland Clinic is an ACGME approved six-year program, taking two residents per academic year. Integrated residents will be exposed to Plastic Surgery very early in their training. During the first year alone, residents will do four months exclusively dedicated to Plastic Surgery. Other areas of focus during the early years include Burn, Dermatology, Trauma, and General Surgery. In addition, during their second year, residents will spend more extended time in those associated fields with strong links to plastic surgery such as vascular surgery and breast surgery.
The Plastic Surgery Department is composed of 16 faculty members, all leaders in their respective areas. Together they staff four services that include: Craniofacial/Pediatric, Cosmetic, Breast, Microsurgery, and Hand Surgery. Each resident will rotate primarily at Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus, as well as month long rotations at Akron's Children's Hospital and MetroHealth Medical Center (Cleveland's Level 1 Trauma Center).
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Cleveland Clinic is one of the nation's largest group practice organizations with over 1,400 full-time, salaried physicians. Cleveland Clinic's main campus offers inpatient graduate medical education training programs and allied health education programs. The broad patient base and extensive expertise of the institution's faculty provide an excellent training environment.
The following provides information around our Plastic Surgery Fellowship Programs, offering training medical professionals comprehensive specialty experience and skill advancement.
This is a one-year fellowship. Two fellows are selected each year. The fellowship includes comprehensive, postgraduate training in all phases of aesthetic surgery and allows each fellow an adequate time frame for clinical research. ach fellow alternates on the breast and cosmetic services every three months. Each week consists of four clinical days and one day dedicated to research.
To qualify for our aesthetic fellowship, the candidate must be a board-eligible graduate of an ACGME-accredited plastic surgery residency prior to the July 1st start date of any given year and hold an ECFMG certification to qualify for clinical training. Respective candidates who have complete applications are interviewed the year prior and the selection is made shortly thereafter. International applicants with outstanding qualifications are also welcome. Eligible applicants must have completed the following requirements: ECGMG or USMLE.
Goals and objectives of training include both clinical and research responsibilities. Clinical responsibilities include time divided between services (facial and breast). The services include 6 months of aesthetics (surgery of the face) and 6 months of the breast service, which includes (breast and body aesthetics including hair restoration and breast reconstruction). Research responsibilities include a requirement to complete at least one clinical research project of publication quality.
All staff members are responsible for mentoring the fellows specifically in cosmetic and breast surgery during clinics (patient evaluations and consultations) and surgical procedures. Fellows receive performance evaluations semi-annually. The fellows meet with the Program Director to discuss the feedback of their evaluations. Also included in their responsibilities is guidance and assistance with their respective research projects that will hopefully lead to publication in a peer-reviewed journal and for presentation at our annual society meeting.
Each fellow spends five days per week in the various staff clinics and operating rooms. This program allows them to advance their skills in facial cosmetic, breast and body contouring surgery. The fellows spend most of his/her time supervised by the individual staff to the service they are assigned and can, in fact, have limited responsibilities, (i.e. hospital rounds, postoperative follow-up). While in clinic, the fellows participate in new patient consults as well as post-op consults and will have the opportunity to participate in noninvasive cosmetic procedure (i.e. Botox and filler injections, laser skin treatments). While in clinic they also spend time with our full time estheticians who are consistently engaged in the practice of cosmetic medicine.
The Plastic Surgery aesthetic fellow will attend the didactic conferences. Our conference schedule includes Indications Conference, Journal Club, Research, Cadaver Lab, and Morbidity and Mortality. They are responsible for preparing one didactic conference to be presented on a topic of their choice at the Wednesday morning conference.
James E. Zins, MD Chair, Department of Plastic Surgery Program Director, Aesthetic/Breast Fellowship
Khadija Spaulding, Fellowship Program Coordinator Phone: 216.445.4724 Fax: 216.444.9419 Email: email@example.com
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This is a one-year fellowship designed to provide an in-depth experience in craniofacial plastic surgery, with emphasis on diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of pediatric craniofacial anomalies.
To qualify for our craniofacial fellowship, the applicants must have successfully completed residency training in Plastic Surgery in the United States or from a teaching institution outside of the US with completion of the ECFMG or USMLE examinations. He or she must be licensed and qualified to participate in clinical activities as mandated by the Division of Education. Applications are accepted through the SF Match at sfmatch.org.
The fellowship will begin with Oral/Maxillofacial surgery and oculoplastic rotations. Both of these rotations will enhance and build upon the experience obtained during plastic surgery residency, giving increased experience in managing facial trauma injuries and providing enhanced appreciation for and knowledge of craniofacial and orbital anatomy. Following these two months, the fellow will spend the remainder of the year doing craniofacial surgery primarily in the pediatric population under the supervision of the teaching faculty at both Cleveland Clinic and Akron Children's Hospital. All patients who are admitted for craniofacial surgical procedures will be seen and evaluated by the fellow along with the resident on the service, and followed closely in the postoperative period. A concurrent management of the patient by both of the resident and fellow would improve the service to the patient.
The fellow will work with all members of the staff of Cleveland Clinic's Department of Plastic Surgery and Akron Children's Hospital. The fellow will report directly to Dr. Frank Papay and Dr. Gaby Doumit while training at CCF and Dr. James Lehman while training at CHMCA. The year is designed to provide a broad exposure to craniofacial surgery and research for applicants intending to pursue a career in plastic surgery with an emphasis on craniofacial surgery. The fellow will gain experience in adult craniofacial trauma surgery and oculoplastic surgery, but the primary emphasis of this program is to provide the trainee with experience in managing pediatric congenital craniofacial anomalies. The year is spent alternating time between Cleveland Clinic, and Akron Children's Hospital where the trainee will gain proficiency in diagnosing, evaluating and treating pediatric patients with both congenital and traumatic craniofacial disorders. Trainees will gain proficiency both through didactic and practical training under the direction of the full time teaching faculty at both institutions.
Frank Papay, MD Chairman, Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute Program Director, Craniofacial Fellowship Cleveland Clinic
Ananth Murthy, MD Program Director, Craniofacial Fellowship Akron Children's Hospital
Khadija Spaulding, Fellowship Program Director Phone: 216.445.4724 Fax: 216.444.9419 Email: email@example.com
To apply to Cleveland Clinic's Craniofacial Fellowship Program, please submit your application to the SF Match at sfmatch.org.
The training is one full year of clinical activity concentrated in reconstructive plastic surgery using microsurgical techniques. It gives the trainee the opportunity to combine clinical activities in operative microsurgery, patient care, clinical research and optional laboratory activities when desired. The estimated time spent between the research (clinical or laboratory) and clinical activities would be between 35 percent and 65 percent, respectively. There would be 1.5 days dedicated for research activity and 3.5 days dedicated to clinical activities in each week.
The fellowship training in reconstructive microsurgery is a specialized training opportunity for those who have special interest in the practice of complex and state of the art in reconstruction. This provides additional training for residents who have graduated from other plastic surgery training, to excel and explore further into this field. Cleveland Clinic Plastic Surgery is a world -renowned medical center. The comprehensive training is designed to provide an in-depth experience in clinical microsurgery, with emphasis in breast reconstruction, reconstruction of the head and neck, trunk as well as upper and lower extremities. This position does not lead to board certification, as there is not subspecialty certification in Microsurgery. The year is designed to provide a broad exposure to clinical microsurgery and research opportunities for applicants intending to pursue a career in plastic surgery with an emphasis on microsurgery.
The fellow will have exposure to numerous microsurgical literatures to enrich the knowledge of complex reconstruction and numerous variations in surgical techniques. Significant emphasis will be placed on detailed anatomy for the site of reconstruction following an applied anatomy into surgery itself.
To qualify for our reconstructive microsurgery fellowship, the candidate must be a board eligible graduate of an ACGME-accredited plastic surgery residency prior to the July 1st start date of any given year or hold an ECFMG certification to qualify for clinical training. Prospective candidates who have completed applications are interviewed the year prior and the selection is made shortly thereafter. International applicants are also welcome with outstanding qualifications. Eligible applicants must have completed the following requirements: ECGMG or USMLE.
The fellow she will start with a two-week course of gaining proficiency operating under the microscope in the laboratory. This will provide the opportunity for the trainee to gain proficiency both through didactic and practical training under the direction of our full-time microsurgery laboratory director. The fellow will become a skilled micro-surgeon by repeated practice in the Microsurgery Laboratory. When desired, the clinical microsurgery fellow will have the opportunity to join other research fellows in the lab under guidance of Dr. Siemionow to participate in a research project in the lab during the first month. This will familiarize the fellow in designing and conducting a project that would involve the use of microsurgery lab in the rest of the year.
Protective time is made available for a minimum of one day per week for the clinical fellow to collaborate research project in the lab. A research project (clinical or laboratory) commences in the beginning of the year and carried on throughout the remainder of the year, with the intent of having at least one project completed for publication and presentation.
As the clinical experience with the patient progresses, it will provide the ability to gain expertise in clinical Microsurgery, as well as seeding potential interest in developing prospective clinical studies and research. Participation in the ongoing activities within the department will round out the experience; augmenting the overall training in Plastic and Reconstructive Microsurgery. This comprehensive training will provide a mature experience for the fellow to subsequently enter a private practice or academic practice with confidence.
Clinical microsurgical experience would involve activities with Drs. Djohan, Bernard, Lohman, Schwarz, Gastman, Hendrickson and Yetman. The fellow will also have protected time for clinical research activities with any of the staff members. The fellow will work with all members of the staff of the Department of Plastic Surgery, but will report directly to Dr. Risal Djohan, Director of the Microsurgery Fellowship Program.
At the beginning of the fellowship almost all of the time will be spent in the Microsurgery Laboratory until sufficient technical skill is gained to allow operating room activity. All patients who are admitted for reconstructive microsurgical procedures, either micro vascular or micro-neural, will be seen and evaluated by the fellow along with the resident on the service and followed closely in the postoperative period.
The fellow will attend all of the conference and teaching activities of the department. They are expected to participate in teaching and presenting cases involving any area in Microsurgery. The fellow would be actively involved in teaching the residents in complex management of the patients. Quarterly evaluation are performed by all participating staff attendings toward the fellow, based on their knowledge base of the literature reading, patient care, operating skill under the microscope as well as the ability to perform flap dissections.
Evaluations are done on a quarterly basis after each rotation. The fellow is required to meet with the program director twice a year usually in December and June for an overall evaluation.
Risal Djohan, MD Reconstructive Microsurgery Fellowship Program Director
Cleveland Clinic's Department of Plastic Surgery research fellowship program is a comprehensive program allowing the fellows to gain experience both in basic science and clinical research. Fellows conduct and assist with preparation of the research projects, obtaining IACUC and IRB approvals, grant application and animal and human subject research. In addition, fellows are trained in basic and advanced microsurgery techniques and help running the microsurgery training course. The fellows are involved also in multiple research projects involving anatomical dissection in the anatomy lab.
The fellowship program is designed to develop research skills, help teach clinical and scientific knowledge, as well as build fellows into future surgeon-scientists in a rigorous but collegial setting.
Outside of their research duties, research fellows are expected to attend actively weekly plastic surgery conferences, lab meetings and monthly journal clubs hosted by the department of Plastic Surgery. They are further encouraged to attend national meetings, partake in cadaver labs, and make full use of the microsurgery lab during their time as a fellow.
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This short film looks at a rarely seen IDP camp (internally displaced persons) in northern Burma/Myanmar. A group of several hundred people from the Ta'ang ethnic group fled this year from fighting near their villages. This short film presents doubts and concerns of President's Thein Sein's peace plans with ethnic armed groups. With growing international attention and investment in Burma, it is important to hear from those most affected by conflict and questionable peace talks.


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The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya was established on 26 February 2011 to oversee the relevant sanctions measures and to undertake the tasks set out by the Security Council in paragraph 24 of the same resolution. The mandate of the Committee was subsequently expanded by resolutions 1973 (2011) and 2146 (2014) to also apply to the measures decided in those resolutions.
The sanctions measures currently in effect include:
- an arms embargo
- a travel ban
- an assets freeze
- measures in relation to attempts to illicitly export crude oil
Exemptions to the measures are described in the relevant resolutions. In monitoring the implementation of these measures, the Committee is assisted by a Panel of Experts.
On 16 September 2011, the Council adopted resolution 2009 (2011) by which it eased, or lifted, some of the measures.
On 7 March, 25 July 2012, and 9 October 2012, the Committee issued implementation assistance notices concerning, respectively, the asset freeze and arms embargo measures. On 11 September 2014, the Committee further updated implementation assistance notice #2.
On 23 March 2012, the Committee submitted to the Security Council a report pursuant to paragraph 5 of resolution 2017 (2011), concerning the proliferation of arms and related materiel of all types from Libya in the region.
On 14 March 2013, the Council adopted resolution 2095 (2013), by which it further eased the arms embargo.
On 14 March 2014, the Council adopted resolution 2144 (2014), by which it stressed compliance with the modalities of arms supplies, including ensuring that transfers reached and remained with the designated end-user, and encouraged bilateral consultations regarding claims for misappropriated funds.
On 19 March 2014, the Council adopted resolution 2146 (2014), by which it decided to impose measures, for a period of one year, on vessels designated by the Committee, in relation to attempts to illicitly export crude oil from Libya. Those measures were subsequently extended by resolution 2208 (2015) until 31 March 2015.
On 27 August 2014, the Council adopted resolution 2174 (2014), by which it reinforced the arms embargo and expanded the criteria for designation of individuals or entities as subject to the travel ban and assets freeze.
The current Chair of the Committee, for the period ending 31 December 2015, is His Excellency Mr. Ramlan Ibrahim (Malaysia). The Vice-Chair for 2015 is Spain.


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As Governor David Paterson prepares to take an ax to state health care spending and legislative hearings are being concluded, a representative for more than 100 continuing care facilities has some advice: "It's the wrong reform at the wrong time."
Scott Amrhein, spokesperson for the Continued Care Leadership Coalition, offered his advice during a recent tour of the Trump Pavilion, a rehabilitation and long-term care facility across the street from Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
Amrhein's group represents about 100 non-profit nursing homes in the state and is trying to get Paterson and the legislature to back off yet another round of budget cuts.
"In the last 33 months there have been cuts of $240 million; in November the Governor is proposing a seventh round of cuts – $490,000 to Trump Pavilion alone – and next April, 'regional pricing' is going to shortchange high-quality nursing and rehabilitative care," he declared.
The newly-opened building at 89-40 135th Street replaced the 1974 building named for Mary Trump, mother of Donald, and has 226 beds for both short-term rehabilitation and long-term care, including Alzheimer's. The advances in rehabilitation are actually adding to the problem.
"We're starting to see a younger rehab population, and where 15 years ago people needed five or six weeks, now the average stay is two to three," said the center's comptroller, Lisa Garcia.
Not that she's unhappy about that; "It's great for the patients to go home sooner. The problem is that all the legal compliance and paperwork involved in patient intake is a major portion of our expenses – while we're handling double or triple the number of rehab patients, our reimbursement is going down."
Roughly 80 to 85 percent of the population receives Medicaid and 10 percent get Medicare, with the balance on private insurance, according to the center's figures.
On each of the three upper floors (the first floor contains offices, the rehab room, a salon and a gift shop) residents or patients have both a large day room and a smaller room for family gatherings. Rehab patients stay on the second floor.
Each day room is staffed by a recreational therapist with a certified nursing assistant trained by the Alzheimer's Association, according to administrator Angela Czarnecki, who worries about maintaining the quality of care if the cuts go through.
"We've cut all the fat from our budget," she said as Garcia nodded in agreement. "About 70 percent of our expense is staffing, and if these cuts go through, there's really no place else to cut."
"Quality care involves making [the facility] a home for the residents; learning their likes and dislikes, when they're used to sleeping and eating – and keeping things light, pleasant and in good working order," said Janet Miele-Powers, an administrator at a sister facility at Peninsula Hospital, who then outlined a stark choice on the horizon.
"It's becoming a battle between the expense and capital budgets – either you reduce staff, or when things wear out, you can't replace them."
Amrhein warned of even more dire events looming.
"Regional pricing – where all the facilities in a given area get the exact same reimbursement rate – means that facilities delivering exceptional care, like this one, are going to lose money, while facilities delivering less care can still make money."
"The result of this is easy to predict – we called it 'a race to the bottom' for quality care," he said.
Worse yet, the state has not given the facilities the final Medicaid reimbursement rate for the 2009 calendar year. "We can't plan in case we've overspent; they could take it right out of next year's budget," Miele-Powers said.
"Part of the problem is that the only time the state thinks about reforming long term and rehabilitative care is when they need to cut the budget," Amrhein complained.
"People need to demand reform for its own sake – not just for the budget."


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How to make a Chef's Hat
Kids and adults and everyone in between will love wearing this chef's hat in the kitchen, it can be made in all kinds of fabric combinations and sizes and it is practical for keeping your hair out of the food too.
- Strip of fun fabric for band – approx 20 x 60cm / 8 x 25 inches
- Square of white fabric for top – approx 60 x 60cm / 8 x 25 inches
- Sewing machine and thread
- Scissors, pins, pencil and measuring tape
- Iron
Step 1: Making the band
- – Measure the chef's head circumference (approx 54-56 cm / 21-22 inches for child, or 60-64 cm / 24-25 inches for adult).
- – Cut the band fabric to this length and 20 cm / 8 inches wide. Press it in half lengthways with wrong sides together.
- – Open it back up and place the short ends right sides together, pin and sew. Then press this seam open.
- – Fold it back along the pressing line to form a ring with the wrong sides together. Put this aside.
Step 2. Making the top
- – Cut your square of fabric into a circle, to help with this fold your square of fabric on the diagonal – first in half, then quarters then eighths. Mark the corners as shown with a pencil and cut off these corners to form your circle.
- – Sew a line of stitches around the perimeter of the circle with a large loose straight stitch, don't backstitch at the beginning or end. Pull the threads gently to gather the stitches until the circle circumference is the same as the band.
Step 3. Putting the chef's hat together
- – Pin the raw edges of the band and the top of the hat together – rights sides facing. Adjust the gathers if you need it to be bigger or smaller to fit the band properly.
- – Sew together with a straight stitch, then sew the edges with a zigzag stitch to tidy the raw edges. And hey presto you are done!
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MADISON, Wis. -- During a Monday morning radio appearance on ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning – with Mike Golic and Doug Gottlieb, who was subbing for co-host Mike Greenberg – UW coach Bo Ryan talked about his disdain for college players who make faces and gestures after making a basket.On the opposite end of such theatrics, Ryan suggested, is Mike Bruesewitz. After knocking down a cold-blooded 3-point shot in the closing minutes of Saturday's win against Kansas State, Ryan said Bruesewitz got back on defense like "Opie on a bad hair day with a big smile on his face.''Opie Taylor was the character played by Ron Howard in the old Andy Griffith television show. "That's how I have fun,'' Ryan said of Bruesewitz' youthful enthusiasm, "because I watch life through these kids. I'm not saying I've seen everything, but I get excited when they excited.''Late Monday morning, Ryan was seated attentively behind his office desk. On the wall directly across from him was a giant-sized picture of the Kohl Center, the Home of the Badgers.Hanging from one side was a picture of Ryan cutting down the nets.Hanging from the other side was a picture of Ryan and wife Kelly celebrating a Big Ten title.On the coffee table, there were pictures of their five kids.On the end table, there were pictures of their grand-kids.Ryan's office is tastefully done in a "Family and Championships'' décor.On a side wall are photos of Kirk Penney, Devin Harris, Mike Wilkinson, Alando Tucker and Brian Butch. All were first-team All-Big Ten under Ryan. Jordan Taylor and Jon Leuer will soon go up on the wall. "We have to have a standard if we're going to put a player up there,'' Ryan said.Work ethic. Persistence. Discipline. Fundamentals.Those are the standards for Ryan's program; the proverbial handwriting on the wall.The words are just above the pictures of the All-Big Ten players.There is a peach basket in his office, too; hanging above an old-school player from the '20s."I wanted something that shows respect for the past,'' Ryan said.He's corny that way – in a good way – in a way that his players can relate. "They just wanted to be a good team,'' he said of their team goals. "How corny is that?''During a Monday teleconference, Leuer was asked if the players reflect the coach. "I think our team personifies what he's all about,'' he said. "We understand his system and we've bought into it.''Leuer went on to say he didn't think the UW system was that much different from others. "We have guys that are just willing to work hard and do anything for each other, first and foremost,'' he said.But that didn't appease one questioner who followed up with, "I think the perception is that it is different. And maybe it's boring. Do you get the sense that some people view it that way?''Leuer didn't flinch."I don't really think so,'' he said. "We know how to win games. Jordan said it best in the press conference a few days ago. There are a lot of other channels on television, so if you think it's boring, then watch something else. We're just going to do whatever we have to do to get the job done.''Taylor elaborated. "Every coach has a set of philosophies that they will make a team successful,'' he said. "And Coach Ryan has his – it's taking care of the ball and getting good shots. And I wouldn't even say it's too different from a lot of other teams. But it definitely works.''Next on the teleconference was Ryan, who reiterated his mission statement."The constants are good screens, good cuts, trying to get to the free throw line, and if people don't see a lot of high-flying dunks, that's too bad,'' he said. "I'm still about substance, not flash. I like my players to be that way. The game of basketball is something that needs to be respected.''The goal is the same every season – to put his players in a position to have success."The best way to pay your dues is to try and do it the right way,'' he said.Some seasons are better than others. Like this season, especially since everybody had the Badgers finishing in the bottom half of the Big Ten. Now, they're one of two league teams still alive in the NCAA tournament. Ryan was asked if he had reached a new excitement "high'' during the Kansas State victory."My excitement comes from watching young men figure a few things out and getting excited themselves,'' he said. "That's like me passing out tests when I coached and taught in high school. Some kid gets an 'A' on the test and he starts smiling and then I start smiling.''Lately nobody has put a bigger smile on his face than "Bruiser," Mike Bruesewitz.
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But the stance taken by Egypt indicates something important. The emergent Sunni Islamist powers in the region differ from the Iran-led Shia bloc, which is self-financing, and which has placed itself on a collision course with the west and Israel.
The Sunni Islamists in Cairo are required by reality to have a different type of relationship with the west. Hamas, in trying to impose new rules of engagement in the wake of the Sunni Islamist advance, failed to calculate this. The result is that the rulers of Gaza are now facing the unattractive alternatives of agreeing to a return to an improved version of the status quo ante, or facing the prospect of a continued Israeli devastation of their capabilities in Gaza.
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Session Details
Wednesday, 29 December
550. Ezra Pound's American Voices
3:30–4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon J, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the Ezra Pound Society
Presiding: Matthew R. Hofer, Univ. of Chicago
1. "'As to the Lost Dog, Quite Correct': Pound's Confucian-American Political Persona," Wendy Stallard Flory, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette
2. "Ezra Pound and Father Coughlin," Bill Freind, Univ. of West Florida
3. "Pound's Philadelphia Freedom," Ira Bruce Nadel, Univ. of British Columbia
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The optimism and patience of the Congressional Black Caucus, after two and a half years of Obama-rule, has finally given out. They are now accusing the Obama administration of failing to adequately address a veritable epidemic of African-American unemployment.
"Can you imagine a situation where any other group of workers, if 34 percent of white women were out there looking for work and couldn't find it?" asked Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat and chairman of the caucus, in July 2011. "You would see congressional hearings and community gatherings. There would be rallies and protest marches. There is no way that this would be allowed to stand."
Unfortunately for them, the first black American president has no credible answer for the caucus. The trouble is that for decades black leadership in and out of Congress has done nothing to tackle the problem of what might be termed "the black underclass."
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New York's 529 College Savings Program means millions set aside for higher education
ALBANY – New York's 529 College Savings Program has translated into thousands of accounts with millions of dollars for college-related savings.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli touted the program as a great way to save up for a relative's college fund.
"This is a wonderful way for parents or grandparents or any person who has a child where they are concerned about their future education to put money away in an account for that child's education down the road and get a tax deduction at the same time" DiNapoli said. "Given the rising cost of higher education this is a smart way to plan so that the money will be there for the young person down the road when they go to college."
In the first five months of this year, there are some 100,000 direct savings accounts with $2.9 billion in assets.


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Fall Out Boy elects to release Deux' Nov. 4
Fall Out Boy will release its fifth album, "Folie a Deux," Nov. 4, the same day as the U.S. presidential election. The project was heralded Aug. 25 with the release of an online mixtape, "Welcome to the New Administration."
On it were five Fall Out Boy demos expected to appear on the album, including "Lake Effect Kid," "America's Sweethearts," "I Don't Care (27)," "ALPHAdog and OMEGAlomaniac" and "Catch Me if You Can/Proclamation of Emancipation," the latter featuring Gym Class Heroes' Travis McCoy.
"Folie a Deux" is the follow-up to 2007's "Infinity on High," which has sold 1.3 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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Felix Ackermann is a freelance graphic designer and self-confessed typography geek. He graduated from Central Saint Martins College in BA Graphic Design, after spending his first two undergraduate years at Curtin University of Perth, Australia. Felix has worked for City & Guilds, Queen Rania of Jordan, and is part of Ludopoli's design team. He has a special interest in pushing the boundaries of conventional typography and his work has been featured in Wallpaper magazine, among other arts and design related publications. Felix has spoken at Typography Day, an international typography conference. Felix grew up in Germany and has lived in both Swaziland and Australia. He now resides in London.


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Shah previously served as an associate at Shearman & Sterling in Washington, D.C., on trademark, anti-dumping, white-collar crime, and anti-trust matters, and was on a trial team that won a $150-million-dollar jury award. As an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, she conducted dozens of bail hearings, pre-trial motions, jury trials, investigations, and appeals. Prior to working at Shearman & Sterling, Shah clerked for Federal District Court Judge David Alan Ezra in Honolulu.
The co-founder and co-leader of Indicorps, a diaspora-focused, grassroots-change, and leadership-building initiative for India, Shah has held substantive short-term assignments with the University of Michigan Expect Respect Campaign through the U-M Provost's Office and with the Ashoka Bangladesh assessment and re-launch.
Shah attended Smith College before transferring to Harvard-Radcliffe, where she graduated magna cum laude. Her student tenure at Michigan Law (1992-1995) had a creative, community-building hallmark.
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Not on view at this time; find out where you can see works from our collection at locations around the Bay Area while our building is closed for expansion
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Arisen Flame - War Of Angels / OrionASOT241 - January 6th, 2014
Ever serving the needs of trance lovers, Polish producer Arisen Flame makes a grand return to A State of Trance.
Supported by Armin van Buuren and many of his trance colleagues, is the follow-up E.P. of 'Gladius' and 'Unity': the melody driven 'Orion' and 'War of Angels'.


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BETHEL ACRES — Drive in to the tornado-ravaged Steelman Estates mobile home community these days and you're likely to be met by a bearded biker from a coalition of motorcycle riders in charge of handing out emergency supplies.
Pottawatomie County community receives nontraditional tornado relief
A bit further down the road you may see a 38-year-old Texas woman who says she was called here by a vision from God to build houses for tornado victims.
Sprinkled throughout are people living in campers and tents, some of whose origins are uncertain and whose intentions, locals say, remain unclear.
Rest assured, some tornado relief of the traditional variety has arrived in this isolated pocket of Pottawatomie County via the Red Cross, Federal Emergency Management Agency and others. But the largely poor community also is relying on a patchwork of nontraditional sources for assistance.
A coalition of bikers called the US Defenders might sound like an unlikely group to be providing assistance, but some tornado victims say they have been among the most dedicated helpers.
'They've been great'
It's been two months since a powerful May 19 tornado shredded this mobile home community located amid rolling hills near Bethel Acres, a few miles west of Shawnee. Displaced residents say many church groups and charitable organizations have come and gone, handing out gift cards and helping haul debris, but the bikers have stayed.
"They've been great people," said David Marshall, 68, who lost his mobile home in the tornado. Marshall has a number of children and grandchildren in the community whose mobile homes also were destroyed.
Food donations have poured into the community from area churches, the Food Bank and individuals. The bikers have collected that food and daily turned it into hot meals for families working to recover from the storm.
Bikers have organized other donated items into a free commissary where residents can come and pick up what they need, said Stick Keiner, Oklahoma commander of the US Defenders. When they don't have a needed item, they send out a specific request for it on the Internet, he said.
Also creating a stir in the devastated community is Tonia Allen, director of a tiny nonprofit agency operating out of Texas called God's Hand Ups-IGLM, who said she felt compelled to act after seeing families living in tents.
"I had a vision from God and I said, 'I really think these families should have houses,'" Allen said. "They've lost so much and most of them didn't have insurance, so I don't think they should have mortgages."
Allen admits she doesn't know much about building houses and her nonprofit agency has no resources.
"I don't know how to build anything," she said. "I know how to get people to do what needs to be done and I know how to coordinate."
Allen said she spends her time soliciting donated materials and organizing volunteer church groups into work crews who can work with a contractor and licensed plumbers and electricians to construct homes.
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Study of two large crystal skulls in the collections of the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution
British Museum skull
The life-size carving of a human skull in the British Museum collection was made from a single block of rock crystal (a clear colourless variety of quartz). According to Museum records, the skull was acquired in 1897 from Tiffany and Co., New York, through Mr George Frederick Kunz. In one of his numerous publications, Kunz states that the skull was brought from Mexico by a Spanish Officer before the French occupation. It was sold to an English collector and acquired at his death by Eugène Boban, a French antiquities dealer, later becoming the property of Tiffany and Co.
Human skulls and skull imagery were known to have featured in Aztec art and iconography in Mexico at the time of first contact with the Spanish in AD 1519. They were worked by Aztec, Mixtec and even Mayan lapidaries, and a human skull covered with turquoise and lignite mosaic is displayed in the Mexican gallery (Room 27) of the British Museum. However, they were usually carved in relief in basalt or limestone as architectural elements.
The authenticity of skulls made of quartz crystal soon came to be questioned. Although some are said to be examples of colonial Mexican art for use in churches, perhaps as bases for crucifixes, they may be among the large quantities of forgeries produced during the second half of the nineteenth century, when interest in collecting ancient artefacts from Mexico was at its height in both the United States and Europe.
Some of these pieces made their way into museum and private collections. Scientists at the British Museum examined the British Museum skull several times between 1950 and 1990. Observations made with a binocular microscope suggested that the techniques of carving were probably atypical of pre-Columbian times. Also, the large piece of rock crystal used for the skull was thought to have come from Brazil, an area far outside the ancient trade network of Mexico.
Smithsonian skull
An increasing number of large and small quartz skulls have become known, particularly in recent decades. None has ever been reported from well-documented official archaeological excavations. In 1992, almost a century after the crystal skull was acquired by the British Museum, a particularly large white (or milky) quartz skull with a hollow cranium was sent anonymously to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. An accompanying note said the object was bought in Mexico City in 1960. The carving, like the British Museum skull, is stylistically somewhat anomalous when compared with ancient Mesoamerican depictions. For example on both skulls, the rigid linearity of features representing teeth contrasts with the more precise execution of teeth on pre-Columbian artefacts. The arrival of the white quartz skull led to a study of archival documents concerned with the early history and acquisition of several crystal skulls in museum collections. It became apparent that not only had the dealer, Eugène Boban, owned the British Museum skull (as alluded to above), he had previously also been involved in the sale of three other rock crystal skulls, one around 11 cm high and two small ones (less than 5 cm high), currently in the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris.
Collaborative study
In 1996, a collaborative programme of authenticity studies was set up between the British Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and also the Department of Earth Sciences and Geography at Kingston University, London. Small skulls carved from rock crystal have perhaps attracted less public attention than larger examples, and the investigations were focused on the origin of the large skulls in the two national museums. Because stone objects cannot be dated satisfactorily by the techniques available today, the aim of the project was to answer three questions. How were the skulls carved? Where did the large pieces of quartz originate from? What is known about the early history of the skulls?
The approach developed during the 1990s in the British Museum for investigating carving methods was adopted for the study of skulls. This usually enables the use of tools and techniques to be identified from the fine detail of the carved features or 'tool marks' preserved on hard stone objects. In the investigation of the skulls, the faint tool marks remaining on the highly polished surface of the British Museum skull and the pitted matt surface of the Smithsonian skull were examined under a microscope and in a scanning electron microscope. They were compared to the tool marks remaining on several rock crystal objects from well-documented excavations in Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico. The regular characteristics seen on both skulls showed they were mainly worked with rotary wheels in conjunction with very hard abrasives. The characteristics contrasted with those seen on pre-Columbian carvings, which were carved with hand-held tools.
The white quartz material of the Smithsonian skull is of relatively common occurrence, but the large clear quartz crystal used for the British Museum skull would have been obtained from a special source. Because the characteristics of inclusions in clear quartz may indicate the geological conditions under which the original crystal formed, the mineral composition and the fine detail of the inclusions in the clear crystal of the British Museum skull were investigated. These ongoing investigations are providing information on the provenance of the source.
To address the history of the British Museum skull, further archival research is underway. When complete the information that is being obtained will be combined with the results of the examination of the skulls, enabling detailed descriptions to be made of the origins of these two large carvings, which will form the core of a joint publication.
More information about this research
G.F. Kunz, Gems and Precious Stones of North America. New York, pp. 285-286, 1890.
C. McEwan, A.P. Middleton, C. Cartwright and R. Stacey, Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico. London, British Museum Press, 2006.
M Jones, "The Limits of Expertise", in: Fake? The Art of Deception. London, British Museum Publications, pp. 296-297, 1990.
J.M. Walsh, "Crystal skulls and other problems", in: Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian, A. Henderson and A.L. Kaeppler (eds.). Washington and London, Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 116-139, 1997.
J.M. Walsh, "Falsificando la historia, los falsos objetos prehispánicos", Archaeologia Mexicana Vol XIV(82), 2006.
J.M. Walsh, "Legends of the crystal skull. Why Indiana Jones might want to rethink his latest quest", Archaeology Magazine, in press.
M. Sax, N.D. Meeks, and D. Collon., "The introduction of the lapidary engraving wheel in Mesopotamia", Antiquity 74(284), pp. 380-387, 2000.
A.H. Rankin, "Fluid inclusions; a new look at ancient fluids in crystals". Geology Today Vol 5, pp. 21-24, 1989.
A.H. Rankin, "Fluid inclusions – tools for geological investigations", in: Encyclopaedia of Geology, R.C Selley, R. Cocks and I. Plimer (eds.). Elsevier Science, Chapter 9, pp. 253-260, 2005.


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Stereotaxis designs, manufactures and markets an advanced cardiology instrument control system for use in a hospital's interventional surgical suite to enhance the treatment of arrhythmias and coronary artery disease. The Stereotaxis system is designed to enable physicians to complete more complex interventional procedures by providing image guided delivery of catheters and guidewires through the blood vessels and chambers of the heart to treatment sites. This is achieved using computer-controlled, externally applied magnetic fields that govern the motion of the working tip of the catheter or guidewire, resulting in improved navigation, shorter procedure time and reduced x-ray exposure. The core components of the Stereotaxis system have received regulatory clearance in the U.S., Europe, Canada and elsewhere.
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So you're thinking about selling your home in the near future, but you are overwhelmed with the home repair/upgrade "To Do" list that goes along with prepping your home for the market. My first piece of advice?
I know because I used to be one! Home stagers are invaluable for several reasons:
1) They know which repairs/upgrades will achieve the greatest return on your investment, which helps you to prioritize the items on your "To Do" list;
2) Oftentimes, they have a network of preferred vendors (painters, handymen, carpenters, etc.) that you can hire with confidence because of their proven track record of quality work delivered in a timely manner;
3) They can save you money on upgrades by passing along their discounts (e.g., paint stores, flooring stores, etc.), and by sharing their "Cheat Sheet" for completing home upgrades very inexpensively.
Let's take a look at some budget-friendly home upgrade solutions that might be found on a home stager's Cheat Sheet:
Tile Backsplash
Instead of hiring a tile guy or renting a wet saw to complete the project yourself, how about using peel and stick tiles?
Smart Tiles are made of a flexible gel material and can be added over existing tiles or onto painted walls. No grout, no wet saw, no mess, no expertise needed…all you need is a couple of hours and a straight blade.
Got a 20-year old countertop that has seen its better days? Instead of replacing it, why not transform it into a beautiful stainless steel surface?
Thomas Liquid Stainless Steel provides a brushed-stainless look that is as durable as an automotive-grade finish. You apply it just as you would apply paint. It can also be used to transform appliances, faucets, hardware, door knobs, etc. This stuff is money in a can!
Sellers typically balk at the suggestion to purchase all new upgraded appliances for the home that they are about to leave, but stainless steel kitchen appliances are a very attractive feature to home buyers. What if I told you that it was possible to upgrade your 1990's dishwasher to stainless steel for around $35?
This easy DIY upgrade is brought to you by Faux Steel Film. Once again, the name of the game is Easy Installation. You just peel off the backing and stick it on. It's scratch resistant, durable, heat resistant (up to certain temperatures), and it's easy to clean.
Textured Ceilings
Depending on what part of the country you live in, popcorn ceiling texture may be a very prevalent problem or non-existent. There are companies whose sole mission is to eradicate this home décor nightmare, one room at a time. If you don't have thousands of dollars to devote to this home repair, may I suggest this alternative:
Circumvent the entire messy popcorn removal process by simply covering it up with sheets of decorative paneling and decorative beams. You've now transformed a selling deterrent into a selling feature!
Nothing outdates a home like kitchen/bathroom cabinetry. If you have a kitchen that screams "1980's", you need to seriously consider bringing the cabinetry into the current decade. This does not mean that you need to purchase all new cabinets, or even spend money on refacing them. Most of the time, simply painting them and adding new hardware does the trick. Once in a while, the design of the doors is so unattractive that paint alone is an insufficient fix. So what else can you do short of replacing them?
Add a few pieces of thin wood to create an on-trend shaker style cabinet. Although this upgrade will take you a considerable amount of time to complete relative to the others in this post, I assure you that it will be worth it when it comes to return on investment when you sell.
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A pair of ageing biker wannabes go on the road in search of adventure and encounter a real Hell's Angels group.
Sounds great, with this cast of men of a certain age on big scary two wheeled monsters. Unfortunately it only pulls it off in places.
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Well, I won't be getting a pony for 'a few years'
It doesn't come in a saddle package, I already was quite weary of that.
You bring up a good point, why not just use the western saddles if you're just pleasure riding? I will have a look at them :)
As for vet costs, yes I will try to buy some of the smaller things myself if possible (girth, martingale, buckets, hay nets, salt licks etc) and in other threads I mentioned we will probably get a discount- my cousins fianc� is a horse specialized vet and trainer, and he is a large animal vet.
I am setting up a reserve fund as of now, and since I am also jobless, I will have to look for one to get some extra bucks in. At least the board money from the boarder will cover the cost of hay, and a small fraction of other things.


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Portage Health's commitment to excellence was recognized with an "A" in the latest Hospital Safety Score grading by The Leapfrog Group.
The "A" ranking was awarded to 37 Michigan hospitals, including two others in the Upper Peninsula.
The Leapfrog Group is an independent not-for-profit organization focused on improving safety, quality and affordability of healthcare in the United States by promoting transparency and value-based hospital incentives.
The group manages a database called The Hospital Safety Score, which compiles reported data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Leapfrog Hospital Survey. The database is accessible at hospitalsafetyscore.org, or by downloading the mobile app "Hospital Safety Score" on iOS or Android devices.
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