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I'm scheduled for a full TT with some lipo and BA. I've had 4 pregnancies but my stomach muscles have not separated, only a fingertip space between them when flexed below and above the belly button. I'm 5'3", 125#, 39 yrs, exercise and workout core regularly. I have loose, stretch marked skin and poochy stomach fat I can't get rid of. My surgeon says I won't need a repair. But should I ask for them to be tightened anyway to get the best results from the TT? Or would it not make any difference?
Should Stomach Muscles Always Be Tightened During a Tummy Tuck?
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Should Stomach Muscles Always Be Tightened During a Tummy Tuck?
Abdominal muscle (Six pack / rectus abdominis) separation is NOT the only irreversible damage brought on by pregnancy. The fact that a lime sized uterus becomes the size of a large watermelong and maintains those dimensions for monthS, means that the abdominal wall (muscles and skin) had to stretch and finally split to accomodate such a large intra-abdominal mass. Even if there was not a significant splitting of the muscles you can BET that the abdominal cavity is much larger and the muscles and overlying skin are looser.
Now - multiply this by 4.
Having performed hundreds of abdominoplasties, I am still impressed by how much stretching these bodies have been put through by multiple pregnancies, how much overt and subtle stretch damage took place and how important is proper tightening of the abdominal muscles if the woman is to regain her "Before Baby" tummy, only better.
In my opinion, deciding not to perform an abdominal muscle tightening on a woman who either had a single large baby OR several pregnancies is to rescue defeat out of the jaws of cosmetic victory. It is choosing a mediocre result over an amazing cosmetic result.
In someone as thin as you, the potential for a truly beautiful tummy is palpably real. You should NOT have to ask your surgeon to do "a muscle repair". He should understand the importance of doing it and offer it to you. As unsettling as it is for me to say it about a colleague, I would get another opinion.
Good Luck.
Dr. Peter A Aldea
Have your muscles tightened.
Thank you for posting your photos. It helps a lot. The second photo shows you leaning over with tightened muscles. The very right photo you have relaxed muscles. There is a big difference which tells me there is abdominal wall laxity that will be improved with muscle plication. You will get a flatter stomach that will last you longer if you have your muscles tightened. You will not always be 39 and 20 years after my own TT I can honestly say that I don't exercise as much as I used to. It is true that it will cause a bit more pain which is why I always use pain pumps. Years ago I started threading them under the fascia (the covering of the muscle) on either side of the midline my patients and I can tell you they have been far more comfortable than I was the first few days after surgery. Unless you have another abdominoplasty you won't have another opportunity so I would not pass it up.
Muscle Plication Is Sometime Not Needed with Abdominoplasty
Although you would get a flatter abdomen overall with plication (tightening of the muscle wall), because your muscle wall laxity is limited and the majority of your skin laxity is low, you can elect NOT to have the plication. This will make your surgery less painful and shorten your recovery.
When I do perform plication, I use a pain pump which drips Marcaine onto the plication for the first 3 days. This decreases the pain significantly.
If you were my patient, I would give you a choice and tell you as long as you don't mind some slight roundness to the lower abdomen you could go with no plication. It would be similar to what you have now, but just without the skin laxity. I would also let you know that with a full abdominoplasty and plication of the muscles you would get the best result possible. It is a trade off and you have the luxury of deciding because your changes are limited (especially considering you have had four children).
A final option for you, if you don't mind some upper abdominal skin laxity is just to remove the lower abdominal skin through a very low incision. This is sometimes called a lower abdominoplasty or panniculectomy. It gets rid of the lower abdominal skin without lifting the skin of the upper abdomen and would less recovery and cost. I hope this helps you in your decision
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Should my muscles be tightened with a tummy tuck
I don't think that I have seen a woman after 4 pregnancies who would not benefit from having the muscles tightened. It will help you get a tighter, flatter stomach. It does hurt more for the first few days and does somewhat prolong the recovery and cause some limitations in activity for a longer period of time. I do not let my patients perform any abdominal or core exercises for 6 weeks after having the muscles tightened. That being said, it is entirely elective and does not need to be done. You can just have the skin tightened which will help you greatly.
There's no good reason NOT to tighten the muscles in a tummy tuck
You only get one shot at a great result with a tummy tuck and after 4 pregnancies, I can virtually guarantee you that you would have a better flatter result with some appropriate muscle tightening performed. It is quick, easy, and only adds a little temporary pain in the recovery but dramatically improves the result.
I have done several TT's this week and in one the muscles were 2-3 inches apart and in another they weren't apart at all. However, both had equal general laxity of the abdominal wall and needed muscle tightening. So the actual distance between the rectus muscles is not a good indicator of the need for muscle tightening, it is more a matter of how loose you can make your abdominal wall when you totally relax the muscles.
Also, are you sure you don't need to retighten the breasts with your augmentation as it looks like you had a reduction before and have some pretty loose lower pole skin. If you already have the scars, it might be nice to tighten up the breast and imporve its shape and tone because the implants alone won't do that. Just a thought to consider...
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If the muscles are together, no repair necessary.
The term "muscle tightening" is a misnomer when applied to a tummy tuck. What is performed is a plication, or folding, of the fascia of the abdominal wall to correct bulging that occurs when the abdominal wall is lax. This commonly occurs following pregnancy as the rapid enlargement of the womb distends the abdominal muscles and stretches out the fascia. In some women, the abdominal wall recoils back to its original shape following pregnancy. In these cases, the abdominal wall plication is unnecessary and provides little improvement to the overall contour of the abdomen. If you don't need it, why do it?
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Should Stomach Muscles Always Be Tightened During a Tummy Tuck?
I'm answering your specific question of YOU having your muscles repaired while you are having your TT. Understand none of us, expert posters, have examined you in person, so your chosen surgeon has an advantage over us. If he believes you do not need a MR than either he is correct or he mis diagnosed you, I can not say. Just to be sure have the muscle repair done to avoid that issue. It might not matter in the final evaluation of your result, but if you do not that if you have a moderate result you would always be questioning yourself with the "what if", "why didn't I" issue.
Fascial Plication During Abdominoplasty
Body contouring operations are very patient specific. With respect to abdominoplasty, the amount of fascial plication varies depending upon individual needs. The amount of separation between the rectus muscles may vary significantly between women; but usually the more separation that is present between the muscles, the more the abdominal wall protrudes in the standing position.
Your pictures show that you have been much luckier than some women, and have not developed the degree of musculofascial looseness that many would after having four children. However, it is still evident from your pictures that you have some looseness in the muscle and fascia of your abdomen - even if your muscles are not separated in the midline. So I believe that you need to have a plication performed with your abdominoplasty. Fascial plication will definitely improve your result, and it is the only way to achieve a flatter, tighter abdomen. This plication will increase post-operative pain and prolong your return to strenuous activity, but it will make your abdominoplasty more complete.
Speak with your surgeon about your concerns so that both of you can reach a conclusion about how to best address this situation before surgery.
Muscle repair during tummy tuck
Procedures should be tailored to individual patients. During surgery with muscle relaxation, additional laxity may be apparent that is not appreciated during an office visit exam. If there is no laxity when you are under anesthesia, there is nothing to be gained by tightening the muscles further. Muscle tightening ("fascial plication") is the major cause of post-operative discomfort during a tummy tuck, plays the greatest role in post-operative activity restrictions, and can potentially contribute to other post-operative complications as well. Performing a plication just to say that it was done does not make much sense, but communicate with your surgeon that if your abdominal wall appears lax under anesthesia and muscle relaxation, you would like to have the "muscles tightened".
Good luck.
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My Mother-in-law is taking Lexapro and Aricept. She has not had a MRI nor a PET scan determining whether she has Alzheimers but was given the diagnoses by the California DMV. Yes, the DMV. Who knew they were now MD`s and experts in ALZ? Anyway she will sleep 15 hours or more a day. Is this normal for someone taking either or a mixture of these meds? She was previously given Xanax for anxiety but these were d/c`d about 2 months ago. She has only been on Aricept for 5 weeks.
She does exhibit signs of confusion but acts like she has been over medicated. ie, sleepy eyes, inability to focus, extreme drowziness, and dry mouth.
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Only about 6% of Lexapro users and less than 1% of Aricept users complain of dry mouth or somnolence. Therefore, it would be unusual for either to cause these symptoms. Perhaps she is taking other medications that might affect the liver's metabolism of these drugs. More likely there is another cause. Since these symptoms are new, I would recommend getting her in to see her primary care physician to look for other causes of these symptoms.
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Sprint champ Anna Meares has continued the Australian success at the world track championships in Melbourne today.
She demolished the previous world record by over a second held by Lithuanian Simona Krupeckaite by registering a time of 10.782 seconds. Krupeckaite's previous time was 10.783 in Moscow last year.
Meares set the time during a qualifying race for the first round and was in obvious disbelief of her achievement, putting her hand over her month upon seeing her final time on the race clock. She was 2.2 seconds faster than the next best qualifier, Shuang Guo of China.
"I was nowhere near expecting that," said Meares.
"I would have been really pleased with a low nine (10.9) high eight (10.8) which is right around a PB (personal best) mark for me. Anything in the eight (10.8) would have been perfect."
Meares won the world sprint title in the Netherlands last year, which came seven years after she was runner-up at the 2004 Melbourne world championships.
She is an exceptional rider and is known for prevailing against adversity. She was hospitalised and wheelchair bound just months before the 2008 Beijing Olympics but still managed second place behind the dominant Englishwoman Victoria Pendleton.
The world record is the fourth to be broken at the event in two days of competition.
Australian trio Annette Edmondons, Melissa Hoskins and Josephine Tomic also captured the women's team pursuit world record today but lost it three races later when Danielle King, Laura Trott and Joanna Roswell of Great Britain reclaimed their previous world mark.
The Aussie girls took off more than a second from the previous world record and completed the race in 3min 17.053sec but the Englishwomen were even better with a 3:16.850 mark.
The rival teams will meet in the final.


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Dec. 10, 2012 has a special meaning for the city as Mayor Andy Cook proclaimed it as Jack Hart Day in honor of a diligent individual who has contributed significantly with 21 years of service by serving 16 years on the Westfield Town Council and five years on the Westfield Board of Works and Public Safety.
"Jack's a real pillar, not only for the city but also for me," Cook said.
Cook said Hart has helped Westfield transition from a town of 5,000 to a city of 30,000 residents. Hart also works as the Westfield Washington Schools transportation director.
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(CBS) DETROIT - The body of Dynasty Myles, a 23-year-old mother last seen on New Year's Day, was found Tuesday in an abandoned home on Detroit's northwest side, CBS Detroit reports.
Myles' family's lawyer told WWJ Newsradio Thursday that a positive identification has been made and that family members are devastated by the news.
Myles was last seen at the Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, Mich. after leaving her young daughter with her parents in Southfield, Mich., CBS Detroit reports.
Evidence collected at the abandoned home reportedly suggests Myles was dragged into the home against her will. Officials are not saying how long her body had been there.
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Future heat vulnerability in California, Part I: projecting future weather types and heat events
Excessive heat significantly impacts the health of Californians during irregular but intense heat events. Through the 21st century, a significant increase in impact is likely, as the state experiences a changing climate as well as an aging population. To assess this impact, future heat-related mortality estimates were derived for nine metropolitan areas in the state for the remainder of the century. Here in Part I, changes in oppressive weather days and consecutive-day events are projected for future years by a synoptic climatological method. First, historical surface weather types are related to circulation patterns at 500mb and 700mb, and temperature patterns at 850mb. GCM output is then utilized to classify future circulation patterns via discriminant function analysis, and multinomial logistic regression is used to derive future surface weather type at each of six stations in California. Five different climate model-scenarios are examined. Results show a significant increase in heat events over the 21st century, with oppressive weather types potentially more than doubling in frequency, and with heat events of 2 weeks or longer becoming up to ten times more common at coastal locations. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit, Vol. 9
Congratulations! You have been randomly selected by the government...to DIE in 24 hours! Dear Citizen: Thank you for your loyalty. You've no doubt noticed that the world is a troubled place. People are apathetic, lazy, unmotivated. You've probably asked yourself WHY ISN'T ANYTHING BEING DONE TO STOP THIS SYSTEMATIC DECLINE? Rest assured that measures are being taken. Beginning today, we will randomly select a different citizen who will be killed within 24 hours of notification. We believe this will help remind all people how precious life is and how important it is to be a productive, active member of society. Thank you for your continued attention and your cooperation and participation...
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Yaacov Bar-Simantov, the Israeli diplomat gunned down in Paris Saturday, was buried at the Holon cemetery today. About 600 moumens attended the funeral services, among them the French Ambassador, Marc Bonnefous.
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who delivered the eulogy, claimed that the murder was the work of "Palestinian terrorist organizations which dare to use the name liberation to carry out murders in various parts of the world on orders from the center of terrorism in Lebanon."
Shamir warned: "We will use our force to crush these terrorist organizations, their leaders, their centers and their bases everywhere our long arm reaches We will hit them without mercy because we have decided to live." He said the bullets that struck the 42-year-old Israel Embassy official in Paris were "aimed at the heart of the entire Israeli nation."
Shamir also urged the nations that have allowed the Palestine Liberation Organization to open offices abroad "to reconsider the aid and recognition they give this murder organization and throw them out of their countries." (Related stories P. 3.)
But so far no evidence has emerged linking Bor-Simantov's killer, described by the diplomat's son and other witnesses as a woman in her middle twenties wearing a white beret, to the Palestine Liberation Organization or any other terrorist group.
France's Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy said on French television today "I have no proof this was the PLO." Several Israeli newspapers cautioned the government today to wait for firm evidence of PLO responsibility before taking retaliatory action.


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One in four Kiwi children living in poverty
More children living in crammed homes are ending up in hospital, as a new report shows one in four children remain mired in poverty.
A new rigorous measure of child poverty released today shows that about one in six Kiwi children are going without basic necessities. This could mean not having a bed, delaying a doctor's visit or missing out on meals.
It also shows hospital admissions for children with medical conditions linked to poverty are rising. Tens of thousands of children are admitted every year for respiratory and infectious diseases associated with living in damp, overcrowded homes.
"I see these poor preschool children in crowded homes that are cold and damp coming in with skin infections. They are filling our wards," Children's Commissioner Russell Wills, a Hawke's Bay paediatrician, said.
Children, particularly the youngest, remain the most impoverished group of New Zealanders, three times more likely to live in poverty than those past retirement age.
And the gap between those going without and the rest is showing no signs of narrowing, with children born to solo beneficiary parents by far the most likely to get sick or injured.
But child poverty is also reaching far beyond beneficiaries, with about two out of five impoverished kids living in working families. Overall 265,000 children live in poverty, which is measured by children living in households with less than 60 per cent of the median income after housing costs.
The report, called the Child Poverty Monitor, was commissioned by Dr Wills after the Government rejected calls to start a comprehensive measure of child poverty.
Instead the commissioner recruited private funding from Wellington charity J R McKenzie Trust and will now report back every year on the health and well- being of our most vulnerable children.
It is the second report in less than a week that has shone a poor light on child poverty, with Unicef reporting last week that New Zealand was failing to uphold the rights of children.
Otago University senior clinical epidemiologist Liz Craig, who helped write the commissioner's report, said it showed New Zealand had yet to "turn the corner" of poor child health.
Particularly worrying were babies living in damp, cold homes.
While there were more encouraging signs in a steady drop in the number of children being assaulted, the figures were muddied by changes in reporting and did not show a clear improvement, Dr Craig said."We are still killing seven or eight kids a year, so we can't be complacent."
Dr Wills said the report was not an "ivory tower paper" but a reflection of the "grim reality" of children's health in 2013.
He said there remained widespread public ignorance about the extent of child poverty and how badly it had deteriorated in the past 30 years. "Child poverty has at least doubled by any measure since I was a kid."
Tackling child poverty needed a plan enshrined in law, similar to tackling road deaths, he said.
However, stronger public consensus was needed before politicians would act as it required tough choices, including removing assistance for some families to give to the most vulnerable.
"There will be winners and losers."
Labour housing spokesman Phil Twyford said the child poverty debate was inextricably linked to the standards of housing in New Zealand.
"This is the Kiwi cycle of poverty in the twenty first century: families under enormous stress because after they pay the rent there isn't enough to pay the bills. Add to that cold, damp houses and overcrowding."
He said families being forced to cram into small rental houses, and in extreme cases, sheds and garages, was a recipe for infectious childhood diseases.
"Since 2008, more than 40,000 children have been hospitalised for poverty related illnesses. Sadly, those figures have been rising."
Twyford's Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill was drawn from the members' bill ballot a few months ago.
It's awaiting its first reading in Parliament, but if it was passed, it would make it mandatory for all rental properties to meet minimum standards for insulation and having an efficient heating source.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said the ministry was already measuring child poverty, and the commissioner's report was just "repackaged" government figures.
"We have prioritised children, particularly those most vulnerable, and we're taking a thoughtful and strategic approach to tackling complex social issues."
But Labour spokeswoman Jacinda Ardern said the report showed the Government was taking the wrong approach and needed to focus more on child poverty rather than just on abuse.
Labour would fund the monitor if it was elected to Government, she said.
"It is a disgrace that the commissioner has had to go and get money from a charitable organisation for this."
Prime Minister John Key said the information the child monitor drew on wasn't new.
"It's Ministry of Social Development data that they've used, so it's not new data - it's been there for quite some time.
"And actually, if you look at some of the graphs I've seen, they show that poverty levels are actually lower," he said.
He told Breakfast this morning he was proud of the Government's record in tackling child poverty, but said the effects of those initiatives would only unfold over a period of years.
"I accept that they unfold over a long period of time, but if you take rheumatic fever I think we're the only Government that's had a serious view of trying to make sure we eradicate rheumatic fever.
"Insulation of homes - I think the previous Government over the course of about nine years insulated about 50,000 homes. We've insulated something like 300,000."
Key said the issue of child poverty was an issue far too complex to define, but he denied the Government was avoiding responsibility by not monitoring Child Poverty.
"That's not true, we monitor each of those individual components and pieces and that's what's important.
"But if you go and have a look at children and poverty, the way we monitor that is if their household income is 60 per cent less than the average wage."
The fastest way out of poverty was through work, Key said.
"That's the reality, if we can get households working, then what we end up doing is lifting the overall household income and we lift those children out of poverty."
265,000 children live in poverty, defined by income.
1 in 3 Maori and Pacific children live in poverty.
1 in 7 European children live in poverty.
1 in 6 struggle to afford basic necessities such as healthcare and clothing.
1 in 10 suffer from severe poverty, lacking basic necessities and adequate income.
3 out of 5 will be living in poverty for much of their childhood.
51 per cent are from sole parent families.
60 per cent are from beneficiary families.
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ROB Elliot's set to shrug off an ankle problem and line up against West Bromwich Albion.
The goalkeeper suffered the injury after coming off the bench in Sunday's defeat to Sunderland.
Elliot replaced the injured Tim Krul, who dislocated his shoulder in the Tyne-Wear derby and won't play again this season.
And Steve Harper had been put on standby for Saturday's crucial Premier League game at The Hawthorns.
However, Elliot was back in training this week, and the 26-year-old is expected to line up against West Brom.
Long-serving Harper – who will leave St James's Park when his contract expires at the end of the season – is likely to be on the bench.
The 38-year-old has made 197 appearances for the club.
Meanwhile, Newcastle's reserve side will take on Richard Money's Cambridge United in a friendly at the Abbey Stadium on Tuesday (7.30pm kick-off).
The match has been arranged as part of the club's centenary celebrations.
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It is impossible to go hungry on holiday in Cancun, where restaurants abound, from high-class eateries to familiar franchises, taco stands and fast-food joints. Those who wish to eat like the locals can be assured that Yucatan cuisine is regarded as the finest in all Mexico, combining Mayan and Spanish influences. Local dishes worth sampling include cochinita pibil(suckling pig baked in banana leaves with annatto sauce) and panuchos(tortillas with fried black beans, chicken and pickled onions). Seafood is also plentiful. A popular romantic option is to book for one of the numerous dinner cruises offered.
For a true taste of Mexico visitors can pay a visit to one of the many cantinas, traditional bar-restaurants, which are situated mainly around the downtown bullring. The atmosphere at the cantinas is particularly lively on Wednesday afternoons after the weekly bullfights, but the food and drink remains good quality every day of the week. Popular restaurants in Cancun include La Palapa Belga, hidden behind the Hotel Imperial Laguna; and Puerto Madero, situated on the shores of the lagoon.
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Detective's plea puts Microsoft to work
Computer system helps track child pornographers
Updated 10:00 pm, Thursday, April 7, 2005
Sometimes it's best to send your message straight to the top.
Canadian law enforcement authorities and Microsoft Corp. yesterday unveiled a new computer system originally sparked by an e-mail to Bill Gates from a Toronto Police Service detective frustrated by the ability of child pornographers to cloak themselves in technology.
The Child Exploitation Tracking System, already used by some police services in Canada, is designed to gather and analyze data collected in child-pornography investigations around the world. Authorities say the software helps police investigators uncover important connections that might otherwise escape attention.
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Microsoft, which has committed about $4 million to the effort thus far, is offering the system free to law enforcement agencies around the world. Executives say they hope to see it adopted on a large scale.
"There's no question that the vision for this tool is in its international potential," said Nancy Anderson, a Microsoft deputy general counsel.
The whole thing is more than a little surprising to Toronto Police Detective Sgt. Paul Gillespie, who sent the message to Gates in early 2003, asking for the company's help. Gillespie also had been lobbying Canadian companies and government officials, and he said yesterday that he hadn't actually expected a response from his message to the Microsoft leader.
"I was under no delusions of grandeur that anybody was actually going to read it," he said. "It just sort of made me feel better sending it."
In the 335-word message, Gillespie explained that he and the 10 investigators working for him were "absolutely inundated" with cases of child pornography. At the same time, Gillespie wrote, child pornographers were increasingly using advanced technologies to trade illicit materials and hide their identities.
"I am frustrated and I need help," Gillespie told Gates in the e-mail.
Microsoft said Gates forwarded the e-mail to officials within the company's Canadian unit. Messages from Gates aren't taken lightly within the company, and soon one of Microsoft's Canadian executives contacted Gillespie to get a better sense of what the company could do.
Gillespie explained yesterday that part of the problem results from the limited financial resources generally available to police investigators.
"The bad guys are using the best computers, the best software, doing whatever they can, and the good guys are expected to catch up and keep up," he said. "We just were falling further and further behind."
Extended meetings between Microsoft representatives and law enforcement officials led to a plan for the system. It was developed by Microsoft Canada in conjunction with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Toronto Police Service.
Although the Child Exploitation Tracking System was unveiled publicly yesterday, about 18 police services across Canada have been using the system in preliminary form for some time. They say it already has proved useful in certain situations.
For example, the system was credited with helping Toronto police investigators identify a man who was arrested last fall on charges of taking and distributing lewd photos of a 4-year-old girl. The system also helped them find the victim.
Information gathered in the database includes details about child-pornography suspects, tips received during investigations, information from seized computers, and lists of people with whom suspects are believed to have traded child pornography.
Part of the idea is to identify communities of offenders and lead authorities from one person to others. The system relies in part on technology originally created by Microsoft's research unit for analyzing social networks, Microsoft Canada President David Hemler said at a news conference in Toronto yesterday.
In the case of the 4-year-old girl, the system analyzed information from a case in England and a separate investigation in the United States to point out "a subtle link" that otherwise wouldn't have been apparent, Gillespie said. That link led investigators to focus on the Toronto man ultimately arrested in the case.
All told, based on links identified by the system, authorities in Toronto have arrested five people alleged to have traded in or shared child pornography, including two alleged to have been directly involved in abusing children, Gillespie said.
"When you consider the extent of the problem of child victimization online, this tool is really going to give law enforcement a leg up and level the playing field," said Staca Urie, supervisor of the Exploited Children Unit at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Washington, D.C.
The system was built on Microsoft technologies including SQL Server database software and SharePoint Portal Server. However, Microsoft said the system uses open standards, such as the XML format for data exchange, letting it work with non-Microsoft technologies and systems.
Officials said that strategy will help the Child Exploitation Tracking System work with existing databases of related information.
During yesterday's news conference, Microsoft Canada's Hemler was asked about the financial motivation for taking part in the project. He pointed out that the company is donating money and services to the project and offering its software for free.
"There is no additional revenue in this for Microsoft," he said. "Frankly, it amounts to doing the right thing -- good corporate citizenship."
Meanwhile, Gillespie of the Toronto Police Service said he was surprised and pleased at the events his e-mail set in motion: "The fact that it's led to what we are now involved in is, truthfully, very gratifying."


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Museum director slaying suspect claims he was raped
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A man accused of killing the executive director of the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art told police that he was drunk and angry during the fatal stabbing.
A pretrial hearing resumes Tuesday in Brownsville for 20-year-old Ernesto Ivan Martinez as he seeks to have his videotaped admission banned as evidence.
Martinez is charged with murder in the October killing of Barry Horn at the 59-year-old's home.
The videotapes, played in court Thursday, show Martinez telling police that he got drunk because he previously was sexually assaulted by Horn.
The Brownsville Herald reported Friday that police have portrayed Martinez as Horn's former partner until they had a falling out.
Martinez, who also is charged with burglary of a habitation and theft, was arrested in Matamoros, Mexico.


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Barbara Walters may be announcing she's retiring in 2014
Forget the talk about Matt Lauer maybe hosting Jeopardy, or Anderson Cooper going to the Today show: Stalwart news host Barbara Walters may be planning her retirement. Like, for real. At least, that's what Deadline.com says.
The site's Nellie Andreeva says Walters' 52-year broadcast career may be slated for an end come May 2014. ABC is planning a huge retirement party and TV special, the site adds. Who would they be able to get to host it? The best person for that job would be Barbara Walters.
Walters broke in as co-host of Today in 1974, the first woman ever to do so, and has been going ever since. She is now 83, if you can believe that.
Deadline notes speculation has been high on this subject since the former 20/20 anchor was caught telling President Obama, "I'm retiring next year." Obviously she didn't. With Joy Behar announcing she's leaving The View this summer, Babs may have decided it was time for her to ride off into the sunset, too -- it's not like she wants to deal with Whoopi Goldberg and Elisabeth Hasselbeck fighting on her own.


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This article is in need of cleanup in order to comply with Encyclopedia SpongeBobia's Manual of Style. Please help this Wiki by making this article clean and tidy!
The Ick is a fungus that is highly contagious, and only appears in the episode "Fungus Among Us." The Ick is a lime green colored mulch type thing with unknown ingredients. To get de-icked, inhabitants of Bikini Bottom had to pay Mr. Krabs 5 dollars to get the ick off with Gary the Snail.
The marine fungus has been shown to be persistently regenerating a new amount of fungus whenever a location on the host has little fungus on it. It develops slower when growing to spread but extremely fast to replace any that is lost. As evidenced by SpongeBob, the ick pays little attention to clothes as they were clean compared to the filthy sponge. The fungus was most likely able to distinguish non-biological material from hosts. Only one method of spreading is known: physical contact. In some cases, it spreads if a small amount can go through the water onto another host.
One major symptom is an extreme amount of itch as SpongeBob irresistibly scratches his infected head. This symptom appears to take effect after a while, but SpongeBob began scratching almost immediately. Another is the presence of the green fungus.
With a stubborn structure, the fungus cannot be removed easily by scratching, soap, and many other methods. Only Gary was capable of removing the entire substance for a brief moment.
The ick (parity to the plague) is a contagious sea disease that snails like Gary the Snail find good to eat. It first infected SpongeBob and made his skin extremely itchy, but he still went to work anyway, and infected everyone else. That was until Gary ate the ick off of everyone.
Characters That Received The Ick
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Squidward Tentacles
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Patrick Star
- Old Man Jenkins
- Health Inspector (Fungus Among Us)
- The entire Krusty Krab and their customers
Real Life Fungus
Spongiforma Squarepantsii
Spongiforma squarepantsii is a species of fungus in the Boletaceae family, genus Spongiforma. Found in Malaysia, it was described as new to science in 2011. It produces sponge-like, rubbery orange fruit bodies that have a fruity or musky odour. The fruit bodies reach dimensions of 10 cm (3.9 in) wide by 7 cm (2.8 in) tall. Like a sponge, they will resume their original shape if water is squeezed out. The spores, produced on the surfaces of the hollows of the sponge, are almond-shaped with rough surfaces, and measure 10–12.5 by 6–7 micrometers.
The name of the fungus is derived from the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants. S. squarepantsii is one of two species in Spongiforma; it differs from S. thailandica in its color, odor, and spore structure.
Ichthyophthirius multifiliis
This is one of the two real life icks. This one is known for affecting freshwater fish. The marine version is called Cryptocaryon (also known as marine ick). This ick and the marine ick are very similar to the one in SpongebBob.
This is the marine version of the ick. Although this one is more dangerous affecting the fish' eyes, fins and skin.
External links
- Spongiforma squarepantsii on Wikipedia
- Ichthyophthirius multifiliis on Wikipedia
- Cryptocaryon on Wikipedia


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- Wed, 27 Feb 2013 -- This afternoon at the Cape Horn Dam and Van Arsdale Reservoir on the Eel River, I watched an AMERICAN DIPPER collecting moss nesting material from the rocks below the dam, carrying it to the dam, flying through the water cascading down the face of the dam, and emerging through the water minutes later without it. I saw this three times. The nest site is hidden from sight by the sheet of water, and it's hard to believe that there is space for a nest back there.
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Sade Maria Ali, 23, of London Road, Brighton, breached a community order imposed for stealing clothes from Next and Debenhams in Eastbourne. Her community order was revoked and she was given a two week custodial sentence suspended for 12 months.
Kevin Wakefield, 52, of The Crescent, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, was found guilty of vandalising a glass door and window at Empire Tandoori in Lewes Road and being racially abusive. He was given an electronic tag and a curfew preventing him leaving home between 7pm and 7am until September 16. He was also fined £110, ordered to pay compensation of £500 and £360 costs.
Joshua William Bowtle, 25, of Ditchling Road, Brighton, pleaded guilty to assault and vandalising a Peugeot car causing £2,326 of damage. He was ordered to complete 240 hours of community service, pay £100 compensation and £145 costs.
Thomasz Dziemianowicz, 43, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods in Western Road, Brighton. He was ordered to take part in a community reintegration programme and pay £145 costs.
Scott Maynard, 30, of Arundel Road, Brighton, pleaded guilty to refusing to give a specimen of breath after a car accident. He was given an eight week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, banned from driving for 36 months and ordered to pay £105 costs. Mark Talmey, 47, of Ashton Rise, Brighton, was found guilty of sexual assault. He was given a 26 week suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay costs of £430.
John Maclean Cooper, 29, of no fixed address admitted failing to comply with a community order made at Brighton Magistrates' Court for assault. The order was revoked and he was given a new 12 month supervision order and ordered to pay £70 costs.
Michael Ferron, 62, of Park Crescent Terrace, Brighton, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly and was found guilty of assaulting a special police constable. He was fined £147 and ordered to pay £303 costs.
Thomas Zakariavikas, 25, of Wellington Road, Brighton pleaded guilty to assault and causing damage to the victim's iPhone. He was bailed until October 22 for sentencing.
Gareth Halsall, 43, of Glynleigh, Ashton Rise, Brighton, admitted to drunk and disorderly behaviour in George Street, Hove and assaulting two police officers. He was given a conditional discharge of 12 months and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £15 and £85 costs.
Paulo Jarvis, 41, of Tivoli Crescent, Brighton, admitted drink driving in Dyke Road Avenue and Tivoli Crescent North. He was given a 40 hour community order and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £60 and costs of £85. Ten points were added to his licence.
Sian Khiavi, 55, of Barclay House, Wellington Road, Brighton, admitted racially abusing a police officer outside her house and assaulting another police officer. She was given a conditional discharge for 18 months and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £15 and £100 costs.
Terence Reed, 57, of Dudeney Lodge, Upper Hollingdean Road, Brighton, admitted indecent exposure at Kings Parade, Ditchling Road. Sentencing was adjourned until September 17 for a pre-sentence report.
Darren Palmer, 46, c/o Tilbury Way, Queens Park, Brighton, admitted assault by beating. He was fined £73, ordered to pay a £20 victim surcharge and £85 costs.
David Smith, 39, of Highcroft Villas, Brighton, admitted destroying a pane of glass belonging to the post office in Melville Road, Hove and assault by beating. He was given a 12 month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £150 compensation.


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Surrounded Islands (Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida) from Venetian Causeway to Broad Causeway, 1983
Woven polypropylene fabric, booms, anchors and other media
Above: 11 x 28 inches
Below: 22 x 28 inches
Bulgarian born American artist Christo's projects have become artistic icons of the late twentieth century. Beginning with his wrapped chairs in the 1960s, to the world's tallest inflated sculpture, to wrapped coastal miles, to bridges, to curtains across canyons, to wrapped islands of polypropylene cloth in the greater Miami Bay, Christo has produced startling and sometimes controversial phenomenon. The logistics and planning are a major part of his work. Public officials, scientists, environmentalists, artists, townspeople, farmers, construction workers, engineers, cloth makers, and seamstresses must be coordinated and convinced that his projects are worthwhile. The artist raises the millions of dollars needed to fund the work himself from patrons. Christo's choice of wrapped objects makes him unique from other land artists because the objects chosen include not only the natural environment but urban environments as well. His work encourages the viewer to look at things differently and has on occasion made political statements by wrapping particular buildings. Christo records every stage of each of his projects and is the author of over twelve books and monographs of his work.


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People of color stand to benefit most from No Wrong Door, an approach to enrollment that will enhance the success of the Affordable Care Act.
More than ever, Connecticut residents of color are covered and can get preventive care thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
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"First and foremost on her list of jobs was the task of providing meals for the family and the farm workers. Food for hardworking men had to be substantial, nourishing, and as tasty as possible. And it had to be ready on time, whether served at home, as was usually the case, or at the Butcher Ranch, or out in the fields at harvest time. Ma was expert at this.
"Three big meals were served daily - breakfast, the mid-day dinner and supper at night. In addition, when they were doing exceptionally heavy labor like harvesting, a high calorie second lunch would be taken to the field in mid-afternoon for the men in our family and the hired crew. The men would be sitting or lying around on the ground as in a Brueghel painting when Ma arrived in her sunbonnet with a basket over her arm. In it she carried slabs of her own bread and huge hunks of cheddar cheese. I would come behind her with homemade doughnuts and a pot of hot coffee. How good that must have tasted after all that hot, hard work!
"It took great quantities of food to feed the eight or nine people who usually sat at our table. Many of the staples, such as hams, bacon, eggs, milk, butter, potatoes, and certain other vegetables came from the farm itself, along with an occasional chicken. Whenever possible, supplementary food was bought in large quantities, which not only saved money but the time and energy of trips to town with a horse-drawn wagon. Considerable storage space was necessary."
The family was largely self-sufficient but, as Mrs. Emery describes: "We counted on people who came to the door to sell us things we couldn't or didn't want to produce for ourselves. The butcher wagon came around twice a week. Rather like a large box, it had doors in back and carried ice inside to keep the meat cold. The owner, Mr. Joe Lawrence (no relation to my mother), the local butcher, no doubt sold us back some of the beef that Papa had sold to him. Though our family butchered pigs, killing a steer was too big a project for us. Ev and I liked to accompany Mama to the butcher wagon because usually we would walk away from it nibbling on a slice of bologna the butcher had given us."
"The fish man came on Friday, the fast day for local Catholics. I remember that the flounders were delicious, though it seemed freakish that both their eyes were on one side, the top side. Other types were less tasty - barracuda, for example. As the fish man didn't carry the salt cod (baccala) that is a Portuguese favorite, we bought that at the general store."
"It may seem strange, but we bought many of our vegetables from a vendor who delivered them to the door. The farm operation took so much time that Pa couldn't give a lot of attention to his garden. The vegetable man was a middle-aged Italian with black sparkling eyes and magnificent mustachios that curled up on the ends. Papa use to refer to him as 'gaitado' (the bagpipe player), because he was given to sudden, startling bursts of shrill laughter at the slightest provocation. The variety of vegetables he carried was limited but he always had cabbage, carrots, turnips, beets, iceberg lettuce, string beans and sometimes peas - no exotics like artichokes, asparagus, or even broccoli."
The author recounts a daunting list of other tasks tackled by her mother, which included canning, bread-making, washing clothes for the family and the farm workers, ironing, sewing and mending clothes and curtains, raising turkeys and chickens, producing cream and quilting. Her father paid his wife a high compliment in the 1930s which Rose Emery recalls: "She did a lot of work in her time."
Source: "Footprints in the Soil, A Portuguese-Californian Remembers" by Rose Peters Emery.


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Like a startup company in search of a mission statement, neuromorphic engineering has yet to define for itself a clear path forward. There have been advances in a few select pockets — Synaptics' touchpads, Foveon's CMOS color imagers, or Sonic Innovation's hearing aids may come to mind — but as a whole, the field knows neither what it wants exactly, nor how to do it. A roadmap to the future has recently been published by researchers from Georgia Tech. The end goal is nothing less than human-brain equivalent processing.
At the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks held this week in Dallas, researchers from IBM will be taking the wraps off of a new software front-end for theirneurosynaptic processor chips. The ultimate goal of these most recent efforts is to recast Watson-style cognitive computing, and its recent successes, into a decidedly more efficient architecture inspired by the brain., but is this realistic?
Neuromorphic computing designs have yet to compete with traditional computing architectures, which continue to impress. Researchers have now developed a new computing platform known as Neurogrid, that runs around 100,000 times more efficiently. Each Neurogrid board, running at 5 watts, can simulate detailed neuronal activity of one million neurons — and it can now do it in real time.
With much fanfare, eminent brain scientist Miguel Nicolelis recently declared that the brain is not computable. What does it really mean to ask if the brain is computable, and why do we care?
Computer scientists at University College London have created a self-repairing computer that never crashes. This technology could find its way to into mission-critical systems that must not fail, or it could improve the overall reliability of computers in general — which is a good thing, considering how almost everything we interact with is governed by a digital computer.
A man we will be hearing a bit more about in the future, Henry Markram, has just sold the European Union a brain in a box for €1 billion ($1.4 billion). The Human Brain Project will not create the equivalent of a mind in a box, but it will certainly generate new ideas, force consensus as to what canonical form actually comprises the anatomy of the brain, and drive the field forward.
Despite its risks, restoring function to a damaged nervous system has a clear path to success. To augment a nervous system in perfect working order without detriment elsewhere is another challenge altogether, yet this journey has already begun. Where does it lead?
As the year draws to a close, it is time to take a look at the most exciting, important, and revolutionary tech breakthroughs of 2012.
A neuristor is the simplest possible device that can capture the essential property of a neuron — that is, the ability to generate a spike or impulse of activity when some threshold is exceeded.
In the past week, both AMD and Intel have given us a tantalizing peek at their next-generation neuromorphic computer chips. These chips, it is hoped, will provide brain-like performance (i.e. processing power and massive parallelism way beyond current CPUs) while consuming minimal amounts of power.
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Date of birth: 1857 Date of death: 5 May 1934 Indianapolis Edinburg Courier 7 May 1934 DEATH OF WILLIAM M. COY William M. Coy, husband of Agnes Coy, father of Mrs. Frank Ridpath, Mrs. Lillie South and Mrs. Alice Downs of Edinburg passed away at his home in Indianapolis Saturday. Mr. Coy formerly lived here and is a brother of Mrs. Janie Davis and Francis Coy of Edinburg and Jesse Coy of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at the home in Indianapolis Wednesday morning at 8:30 after which the remains will be brought to Edinburg for burial in Rest Haven. Those desiring can view the remains at the cemetery as the casket will be opened.
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