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Thinking about moving your shop to a new facility? Coudray's advice can help you avoid some jams that you might not expect.
Business has been good at my shop for the last two years. I decided after 24 years in the same location to move into a much bigger space. Finding a building big enough took almost five months, plus another 15 months with city planning, architects, contractors, delays, permits, and the assorted details that make construction such an unpleasant affair. I had truly forgotten just how distracting and aggravating a move can be. This month, I'd like to share with you some of the things that brought more balance and efficiency to the shop's new screen-prep, coating, imaging, and reclaiming areas. I will also talk about some of the consequences of moving equipment to a new location—things we generally never think about until it is too late.
A fresh start
Our new facility is approximately 16,000 sq ft. We built 5000 sq ft of new production offices, imaging, reclaiming, and so forth. We had a blank canvas, so it was relatively easy to design exactly what would be the ideal production layout and workflow. Many of you have read about our transition to CTS over the last couple of years. That was a tremendous boost for us, but it led to other bottlenecks in the process. In production planning you quickly learn that unless you balance the entire system, you end up outstripping one area and burying another. That was the case with CTS. We were able to image so efficiently that it created bottlenecks in reclaiming while we turned the orders that had just been printed.
From the design perspective, I wanted to create a work-flow that was compact and circular. All of the coating and imaging happens in one room. The screens are racked and then rolled into the production staging area, where we stage them by press and position on the press. After printing, the screens are deinked and the tape is pulled off. We then return the screens to carts for the trip back to the reclaiming area, where we desolublize ink residue and strip emulsion. The screens are then retensioned if necessary and degreased before returning to the coating area for another round. We commonly reclaim screens completely within ten minutes of the job coming off press.
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Bring your beach party to life the the smooth sounds of Trinidad and Tobago's Calypso music! No matter the event, if you're wanting to create a Caribbean, island, or beach vibe a Calypso Band is the way to go. With the conga, bongos, steelpan, and maracas creating the beats, you'll feel like you're groovin' in the sand in the tropics at a local tiki bar even if you're up in Minnesota, Kansas, or South Dakota. So grab the tiki torches, bust out the flip flops, and party it up island style with a Calypso Band.
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Mouth dryness or thick saliva
Radiation therapy to the head and neck areas, some types of chemo, and certain other medicines can cause dry mouth or thick saliva. The glands that make saliva can become irritated and make less saliva, or your saliva can become very thick and sticky. Dryness can be mild or severe.
A dry mouth can increase your risk of cavities and mouth infection. If you smoke, chew tobacco, or drink alcohol, the dryness can be worse.
If you have either of these side effects, drink plenty of fluids throughout the day and eat moist foods as much as possible. Also brush your teeth and rinse your mouth often with a baking soda, salt, and water solution to help keep it clean and prevent infection (recipe follows).
What to do
- Drink 8 to 10 cups of liquid a day, and take a water bottle wherever you go. (Drinking lots of fluids helps thin mucus.)
- Take small bites, and chew your food well.
- Eat soft, moist foods that are cool or at room temperature. Try blenderized fruits and vegetables, soft-cooked chicken and fish, well-thinned cereals, popsicles, smoothies, and slushies.
- Avoid foods that stick to the roof of the mouth like peanut butter or soft bread.
- Moisten foods with broth, soup, sauces, gravy, yogurt, or creams.
- Suck on sugarless candy or chew sugarless gum to stimulate saliva. Citrus, cinnamon, and mint flavors often work well.
- Keep your mouth clean. Rinse your mouth before and after meals with plain water or a mild mouth rinse (made with 1 quart water, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon baking soda – shake well before using). Use a soft-bristle toothbrush. It's a good idea to gently brush your tongue, too. Ask your doctor if it's OK to floss.
- Avoid commercial mouthwashes, alcoholic and acidic drinks, and tobacco.
- Limit caffeine intake, from coffee, tea, energy drinks, and caffeinated soft drinks.
- Use a cool mist humidifier to moisten room air, especially at night. (Be sure to keep the humidifier clean to avoid spreading bacteria or mold in the air.)
- Fresh pineapple or papaya may help to thin saliva, but only try this if your mouth is not sore.
- Saliva substitutes are helpful if your salivary glands have been removed by surgery or damaged by radiation therapy. These products add moisture to your mouth.
- Nutritional supplements, like liquid meal replacements, may be helpful. If you can't get enough calories and nutrition through solid foods, you may need to use liquid supplements for some time. Talk to your cancer care team about this.
What to eat or not eat when you have a dry mouth*
|Foods that may cause problems
|High protein
Meats, poultry, and fish in sauces and gravies
Casseroles, soups, and stews
|Dry meats, poultry, and fish without sauces
|Breads, cereals, rice, and pasta
Bread, rolls
Cooked and cold cereals, cereal with milk
Rice soaked in gravy, sauce, broth, or milk
Dry breads, rolls
Pasta, rice
Pretzels, chips
Dry cereal
|Fruits and vegetables
Canned and fresh fruits that have a lot of moisture, like oranges and peaches
Vegetables in sauce
Bananas, dried fruit
Vegetables, unless in a sauce or with a high moisture content
|Drinks, desserts, and other foods
Club soda, hot tea with lemon (decaf), fruit-ades, diluted juices, sports drinks
Commercial liquid nutrition supplements
Homemade milk shakes; ice cream, sherbet, pudding
Butter, margarine
Salad dressing
Sour cream, half-and-half
|Cookies, cake, pie, unless soaked in milk
*Adapted from Eldridge B, and Hamilton KK, Editors, Management of Nutrition Impact Symptoms in Cancer and Educational Handouts. Chicago, IL: American Dietetic Association; 2004.
Nutrition for the Person With Cancer During Treatment
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- Cancer and cancer treatment affect nutrition
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- For people with weakened immune systems
- How to cope with common eating problems
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- Mouth or throat pain or sores
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- Taste and smell changes
- Weight gain
- Nutrition after treatment ends
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Postdoctoral research visitor Ceran Sekeryapan from Turkey has been studying lacustrine ostracods from our collections over the past week with the intention of adding records to the database of Non-Marine Ostracod Distribution in Europe (NODE). This database, combined with details of modern climate records and Geographical Information System (GIS) software is increasingly being used to reconstruct past air temperatures.
Cypris pubera, a freshwater ostracod (courtesy of Dr David Horne).
- Ostracods and temperature
It has long been known that some non-marine ostracod species prefer colder while others prefer warmer climates. The Mutual Ostracod Temperature Range (MOTR) method, developed by Dr David Horne at Queen Mary University of London, calibrates each species by calculating the range of air temperatures that they can tolerate. This is done by plotting the present geographical distribution of each species and using detailed modern records of climate in these locations to calculate a seasonal air temperature range.
Other factors affect the distribution of ostracods, for example the chemisty, depth and hydrology of different water bodies harbouring ostracods.
- Reconstructing past climates
Many species present in the modern day are also present in the Quaternary fossil record covering the last 2.5 million years. The MOTR method plots air temperature ranges of each species present in a fossil assemblage so that a mutual temperature range can be derived.
Temperature ranges of non marine ostracod species identified by Horton et al. (1992) from a Hoxnian site about 400,000 years old at Woodston, Peterborough. The mutual temperature range for the month of January is calculated and shows slightly lower mean temperatures than the present day (courtesy of Dr David Horne).
The same species are plotted for July and show temperatures similar or slightly warmer than the present, a seasonal conclusion in general agreement with studies on plant macrofossils, pollen and molluscs (courtesy of Dr David Horne).
- Developing our collections
Ceran has been identifying species part of a large microfossil collection donated in 1991 by Prof. John Neale of the University of Hull. As well as providing new identifications and ratifying previous interpretations, she will provide new latitude and longitude references for the sites that our material has come from using a method called georeferencing. Modern maps and available resources like Google Earth are used to provide up to date latitude and longitude readings that were not present in the original data.
Coverage of Recent non marine ostracod records in the OMEGA database (courtesy of Dr David Horne).
- The global picture
Key data from the NODE database and other large datasets from Canada, USA, southern Africa and Japan are being assembled in OMEGA (Ostracod Metadatabase of Environmental and Geographical Attributes). This will facilitate improved calibrations as well as biogeographical and biodiversity research. Details from large museum collections like ours are continually being used in this work.
- The future
Testing and refinement of the MOTR method can only make this climate interpretation tool more accurate in the future. Ceran will be applying this method and gathering more data from sites in Turkey. Contributions to the OMEGA database are also invited as part of a citizen science project. Museum collections are also set to play a vital role in this study.


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Play Canon 7D H.264 MOV movies with Windows Media Player
- The Canon EOS 7D is an 18 megapixel digital SLR camera incorporating a new APS-C CMOS sensor designed and manufactured by Canon. It records HD videos in 1080P (1920*1080) with 30/25/24 video frame rate, or 720P (1280*720) with 60/50 video frame rate. The recorded videos are in QuickTime MOV format with H.264/MPEG-4 Video Codec and uncompressed PCM audio Codec.
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FIU has been awarded a grant to continue stewardship of the Aquarius Reef Base, the world's only operational underwater research center.
As a member of the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Science CIMAS, FIU received a grant to continue maintenance and monitoring of the facility for NOAA in 2013. This will enable FIU to develop a new business model to fund operations at Aquarius. NOAA's National Undersea Research Program, including Aquarius, was not included in the president's fiscal 2013 proposal, however, NOAA recognizes that the Aquarius Reef Base is a unique and valuable asset to the scientific community. The new business model would include research and education activities supported by federal, state and local government funding, as well as fees for services from science and engineering teams from government and industry that use the facility. Donations from private benefactors also will be a key to ensuring the future of Aquarius. A photo of Aquarius can be found here.
"Aquarius offers tremendous research opportunities, and we're ensuring that the investment of American taxpayers continues to provide critical research results to the country," said Mike Heithaus, executive director of FIU's School of Environment, Arts and Society (SEAS). "For our students and our marine sciences program Aquarius offers fantastic new possibilities and is a natural fit for the work we are doing in the Keys and throughout the world."
FIU biology professor Jim Fourqurean is the director of the Marine Education and Research Initiative for the Florida Keys in SEAS, and he will be overseeing activities at Aquarius Reef Base. The existing Aquarius team will become FIU employees.
"Rapid changes in the environment that supports the beauty and economy of South Florida make the observation post of Aquarius even more important," said Fourqurean. "It gives us a unique vantage point to understand how changing climate, fishing pressure and threats from pollution and oil and gas exploration and production will impact our coastal environment."
Aquarius provides unparalleled means to study coral reefs and the ocean, test state-of-the-art undersea technology, train specialized divers, and to engage the imagination of students and the public across the globe in ocean science, coral reefs, conservation, and underwater technology. The undersea lab even offers training opportunities for astronauts headed to space.
"Living and working in Aquarius is perhaps the closest thing on earth to actually being in space," said William L. Todd, program manager for Exploration Analogs at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Todd commanded the first-ever NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) at Aquarius in 2001. NEEMO is a joint NASA-NOAA program to study human survival in the underwater laboratory in preparation for future space exploration.
"Aquarius allows our astronauts to conduct unique undersea missions that closely resemble the tasks, timelines, operations and even spacewalks that will be conducted on long duration space missions," Todd said.


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The 2010/2011 Academic Honor Roll of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) includes 192 student-athletes from Hope College.
The academic awards program is administered by the faculty representatives of the MIAA member colleges.
The 22nd annual Academic Honor Roll consists of student-athletes who maintained a minimum 3.5 grade point average for the year.
Among the Hope students named to the Honor Roll are sixteen seniors who both lettered four years and achieved the academic distinction. They are Bradley Boelkins of Ada/Forest Hills Central HS (tennis), Kelsey Bos of Holland/Holland HS (soccer), Erika Bruinsma of Grand Rapids/Grand Rapids Christian (basketball), John Donkersloot of Zeeland/Zeeland East HS (track), Katherine Garcia of Battle Creek/Battle Creek Central HS (tennis), Andrew Klinkman of Ann Arbor/Dexter HS (baseball), Emily Kreichelt of Northville/Northville HS (track), Katherine Lovinger of Hillsdale/Hillsdale HS (soccer), Andrea Miller of Algonquin, Ill./Dundee-Crown HS (cross country, track), Andrew Nichols of Traverse City/Traverse City West HS (soccer), Kori Nieuwsma of Lakeville, Minn./Bethany Academy (softball), Abigail Phillips of Wayland/Wayland HS (basketball, softball), Carl Scholten of Petoskey/Petoskey HS (track), Kristen Schwenk of Midland/H.H. Dow HS (soccer), Susan Stevenson of Granger, Ind./Penn HS (softball), and Kara Vande Guchte of Hamilton/Hamilton HS, (volleyball, track).
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Olivia Allore (BB), sophomore from Muskegon/Muskegon Catholic Central*
Megan Altieri (SO), sophomore from Bay Village, Ohio/Bay**
Emilee Anderson (TN), junior from Fenton/Fenton***
Steven Ansilio (SW), junior from Western Springs, Ill./Lyons Township***
Emily Atsma (GO), junior from Caledonia/South Christian**
Michael Atwell (FB), sophomore from Geneseo, Ill./Geneseo*
Paul Austin (SO), junior from Grandville/Grandville**
Traci Baker (VB), junior from Zeeland/Tri-Unity Christian**
Emily Baracy (SO), junior from Canton/Canton**
Kevin Bartosek (SO), senior from Traverse City/Traverse City West**
Ashley Bauman (BB), sophomore from Manistee/Manistee Catholic Central**
Casey Baxter (TE), junior from Saline/Saline**
Kelsey Bekius (SO), freshman from Spring Lake/Spring Lake**
Claire Bird (CC), senior from New Paltz/New Paltz Central***
Katie Blodgett (GO), senior from Traverse City/St. Francis**
Bradley Boelkins (TE), senior from Ada/Forest Hills Central****
Camille Borst (CC & TR), freshman from Allendale/Allendale*
Kelsey Bos (SO), senior from Holland/Holland****
Kristen Bosch (TR), sophomore from Allendale/Unity Christian**
Greer Bratschie (VB), sophomore from Grand Rapids/East Grand Rapids*
Erika Bruinsma (BB), senior from Grand Rapids/Grand Rapids Christian****
Cassidy Bulthuis (VB), senior from Nunica/Spring Lake**
Adriane Burmester (SW), sophomore from Burnsville, Minn./Minnehaha Academy*
Meredith Busman (CC, TR), sophomore from Coopersville/Coopersville*
Parker Bussies (TE), freshman from Zeeland/Zeeland West*
Catherine Calyore (TR), sophomore from Naples, Fla./Barron Collier*
Christian Calyore (TR), junior from Naples, Fla./Barron Collier***
Laura Cameron (SW), sophomore from Ann Arbor/Pioneer*
Nicholas Campbell (GO), sophomore from Ann Arbor/Saline*
Jacqueline Canonaco (VB), junior from Arlington Heights, Ill./Prospect*
Joseph Carty (BsB), freshman from Dearborn/Edsel B. Ford*
Gabriel Casher (TE), sophomore from Ann Arbor/Pioneer*
Kylie Clark (SO), junior from Noblesville, Ind./Noblesville**
Kimberly Collins (TR), sophomore from Carmel, Ind./Carmel*
Cara Conrad (SB & TN), freshman from St. Joseph/Michigan Lutheran*
Rollin Cook (CC, TR), freshman from Ada/Forest Hills Central*
Emily Corstange (TN), senior from Kalamazoo/Kalamazoo Christian**
Ryan Cotter (SO), senior from Zeeland/Zeeland East***
Tyler Cronin (TN), freshman from Livonia/Adlai E. Stevenson*
Skylar Darish (SW), freshman from Troy/Troy*
Nickolas Davros (FB), senior from Muskegon/Mona Shores*
Eric Dawson (BsB), freshman from Grand Haven/Midland*
Miranda DeKuiper (BB), senior from Ludington/Ludington***
Chase De Maagd (BB), sophomore from Woodland/Barry County Christian*
Sara DeWeerdt (VB), senior from Holland/Hamilton**
Kyle Dietrich (FB), senior from Gobles/Gobles*
David Dolfin (TR), sophomore from Hingham, Wisc./Oostburg*
John Donkersloot (TR), senior from Zeeland/Zeeland East****
Rachel Doud (SO), sophomore from Rockford/Rockford**
Erika Dvorak (TR), sophomore from Rochester Hills/Rochester Adams*
Elizabeth Ellis (BB), sophomore from Grand Rapids/East Grand Rapids**
Amanda Engbers (TN), junior from Kalamazoo/Kalamazoo Christian**
Laura English (TR), freshman from Coatesville, Ind./Greencastle*
Steven Esbin (BsB), junior from Carmel, Ind./Carmel***
Austin Farah (GO), sophomore from Bloomfield Hills/Southfield Christian*
Jacie Fiedler (VB), junior from Richmond, Ill./Richmond-Burton Community*
Benjamin Fineout (CC, TR), junior from Zeeland/Zeeland West***
Emily Fischer (CC, TR), senior from Naperville, Ill./Naperville Central*
Mallory Fox (SO), senior from Livonia/Adlai E. Stevenson***
Catherine Gammon (CC & TR), freshman from Petoskey/Petoskey*
Katherine Garcia (TE), senior from Battle Creek/Battle Creek Central****
Nicole George (VB), sophomore from Hamilton/Hamilton*
Kyle Gibson (CC, TR), junior from Alma/Alma***
Kaitlin Glomski (TR), senior from Kalamazoo/Mattawan*
Heidi Grooters (TR), senior from Jenison/Jenison*
Courtney Hacker (TR), senior from Ubly/Cass City*
Kevin Hagan (CC, TE), senior from Okemos/Okemos***
Elizabeth Hamer (SO), junior from Palatine, Ill./Palatine**
Philip Haywood (BsB), freshman from Grand Rapids/Forest Hills Northern*
Valerie Headley (TN), junior from Chesterland, Ohio/Cornerstone Chr. Acad.***
Anna Heckenliable (SW), senior from Quincy, Colo/Fort Collins*
Sharon Hecker (CC, TR), sophomore from Grandville/Grandville**
Brian Hernandez (CC & TR), junior from Norwood/Saline**
Chelsea Holicki (CC & TR), senior from Coldwater/Coldwater*
Erin Holstad (SW), sophomore from Traverse City/Traverse City West**
Alexandra Hoyt (TN), freshman from Niles/Niles*
Jared Hudson (FB), senior from Fremont/Fremont**
Alex Hughes (TE), junior from Hudson, Ohio/Hudson***
Eric Immink (BB), sophomore from Hudsonville/Hudsonville*
Ashley Jasperse (SW), senior from Grand Rapids/Forest Hills Central***
Lindsay Jipping (SO), sophomore from Jenison/Unity Christian*
Joshua Kammeraad (CC & TR), sophomore from Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park*
Maria Kieft (SW), freshman from Spring Lake/Spring Lake*
Jacqueline Kirsch (TR), junior from Harbor Beach/Harbor Beach Comm.***
Timothy Klein (BsB), sophomore from Circle Pines, Minn./Centennial**
Andrew Klinkman (BsB), senior from Ann Arbor/Dexter****
Bruce Kraay (CC, TR), junior from Zeeland/Zeeland East**
Joshua Kranz (BsB), freshman from Carpentersville, Ill./Harry D. Jacobs*
Andrew Kreichelt (TR), sophomore from Northville/Northville**
Emily Kreichelt (TR), senior from Northville/Northville****
Sarah Krueger (SW), sophomore from Wixom/Walled Lake Western**
Drew Krumm (SW), freshman from Brighton/Brighton*
Courtney Kust (BB), sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio/Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy**
Leah LaBarge (TE), junior from Hudsonville/Hudsonville**
Cameron Lampkin (TR), senior from Troy/Berkley**
Sara Lang (SO), sophomore from Rochester Hills/Traverse City Central**
Jonathan Lautz (TE), senior from Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton North**
Courtney Laux (SO), freshman from Novi/Novi*
Carrie Lehocky (VB), senior from Byron Center/Byron Center**
Steven Lewis (BsB), senior from Ada/Forest Hills Central***
Timothy Lewis (CC & TR), sophomore from South Haven/South Haven*
Katherine Lovinger (SO), senior from Hillsdale/Hillsdale****
Kelly Lufkin (CC, TR), junior from Houghton/Houghton***
Peter Luzzi (TR), senior from Winnetka, Ill./New Trier*
Jessica Maier (VB), sophomore from Grandville/Jenison*
Michelle Marra (SB), senior from Waldwick, N.J./Waldwick**
Kara Marsman (SO), senior from Holland/Holland Christian**
Travis Martin (FB, TR), junior from Hudsonville/Hudsonville***
Kelsey Masserant (SO), freshman from Novi/Novi*
Emery Max (TR), junior from East Lansing/Okemos*
Brett May (CC & TR), senior from Belmont/Rockford*
Morgan McCardel (CC, TR), sophomore from Traverse City/St. Francis**
Andrea McCarty (GO), junior from Denver, Colo./Cherry Creek**
Jason McColl (FB), freshman from Traverse City/Traverse City Central*
Sheri McCormack (CC & TR), sophomore from Holland/West Ottawa*
Andrea Miller (CC, TR), senior from Algonquin, Ill./Dundee-Crown****
Jordan Morse (FB), senior from Sparta/Sparta**
Anthony Mucciante (FB), senior from Grosse Pointe/Grosse Pointe**
Courtney Mulder (TR), freshman from Kalamazoo/Kalamazoo Christian*
Kate Nelson (CC, TR), junior from Williamston/Williamston***
Andrew Nichols (SO), senior from Traverse City/Traverse City West****
Jillian Nichols (BB), sophomore from Brighton/Brighton*
Brooke Nienhuis (SB), junior from Zeeland/Zeeland West*
Kori Nieuwsma (SB), senior from Lakeville, Minn./Bethany Academy****
Mickael Nunez (TR), junior from Lawrence/Central Catholic*
Regina O'Brien (CC, TR), junior from Saline/Saline***
Kevin Olson (BsB), freshman from Lake in the Hills, Ill./Harry D. Jacobs*
Katie Overway (BB), freshman from Holland/West Ottawa*
Charlotte Park (GO), sophomore from Grosse Pointe/Grosse Pointe South*
Samuel Pederson (CC & TR), sophomore from Mt. Prospect/Mt. Prospect*
Alexander Perkins (SW), sophomore from Brighton/Howell*
Luke Peterson (FB), junior from Muskegon/Oakridge**
Danielle Petzak (SO), junior from Zeeland/Zeeland West***
Abigail Phillips (BB, SB), senior from Wayland/Wayland****
Rebecca Reisdorff (CC), freshman from Okemos/Okemos*
Matthew Ringel (TR), freshman from Freeland/Valley Lutheran*
Aaron Rittenhouse (SW), junior from Ft. Wayne, Ind./Homestead***
Kirstin Robinson (TN), junior from Traverse City/Traverse City West***
Nicholas Rodriguez (FB), sophomore from Grand Rapids/Forest Hills Central**
James Rogers (CC & TR), freshman from Saginaw/Valley Lutheran*
Andrew Rose (SW), junior from Holland/Grandville**
Christopher Ryan (CC), sophomore from Vicksburg/Vicksburg Community*
Susan Savasky (CC), senior from Berkley/Marian*
Amanda Schab (TN & TR), junior from Galesburg/Galesburg Augusta*
Christopher Schmelz (FB), junior from Chelsea/Chelsea**
Cory Schmidt (BsB), sophomore from Milan, Ohio/Edison**
Carl Scholten (TR), senior from Petoskey/Petoskey****
Megan Scholten (GO), junior from Grand Rapids/Grand Rapids Christian***
Marietta Schoolmaster (VB), freshman from Portage/Portage Central*
Daniel Schriemer (CC & TR), freshman from Vicksburg/Vicksburg Community*
Shelby Schulz (TE), sophomore from Allegan/Allegan**
Kristen Schwenk (SO), senior from Midland/H.H. Dow****
William Seiler (BB), sophomore from Chillicothe, Ill./Illinois Valley Central*
Jeffrey Shade (SW), junior from Davison/Davison***
Kaley Sheldon (CC), freshman from Grosse Pointe/Grosse Pointe*
Kyleigh Sheldon (SW), sophomore from Hastings/Hastings***
Grant Shooter (TE), freshman from San Diego, Calif./Westview*
Brandon Siakel (TR), senior from Hillsdale/Hillsdale***
Karlyn Sikma (CC & TR), junior from Grand Rapids/North Pointe Christian**
Julia Slesinski (CC & TR), freshman from Kalamazoo/Portage Central*
Rachel Slotman (TN), freshman from Cedar Grove, Wisc./Cedar Grove-Belgium*
Thomas Smeltzer (CC & TR), freshman from Frankfort/Benzie Central*
Mallory Smith (TE), freshman from Grand Haven/Grand Haven*
Morgan Smith (CC), junior from Grand Rapids/Forest Hills Eastern**
Sarah Sohn (SW), senior from Arlington Heights, Ill./Prospect***
Clayton Sommers (SW), senior from Zeeland/Zeeland East*
Susan Stevenson (SB), senior from Granger, Ind./Penn****
Jeffrey Stusick (SO), senior from Stevensville/Lakeshore**
Andrew Thomson (GO), junior from Beaver Dam, Wisc./Central Wisconsin Christian**
Laura Tjepkema (SB), sophomore from Dorr/South Christian**
Thomas Tresh (BsB), freshman from Grand Rapids/Northpointe Christian*
Claire Triner (SW), sophomore from Lake Zurich, Ill./Lake Zurich*
Caitlin Trompeter (VB), sophomore from Kalamazoo/Gull Lake*
John Turner (SO), senior from Caledonia/East Kentwood*
Kara Vande Guchte (VB, TR), senior from Hamilton/Hamilton****
Kelsi Vande Guchte (TR), sophomore from Hamilton/Hamilton**
Casandra Vanden Bosch (SO), freshman from Zeeland/Zeeland East*
Jason Vanderklok (GO), freshman from Scotts/Vicksburg Community*
John Vanderveen (TE), sophomore from Clarkston/Clarkston**
Zachary VanNoord (BsB), freshman from Hudsonville/Hudsonville***
Sarah Venlet (TR), sophomore from Zeeland/Holland Christian**
Zachary Vossen (TR), junior from Belmont/Northview*
Jessica Warner (SW), senior from Geneva, Ill./Geneva Community***
Mark Waterstone (SW), senior from Holland/Holland*
Brian Wiese (TN), senior from Wilmington, N.C./Cape FearAcademy***
Chelsea Wiese (SW), junior from Rochester/Rochester Adams***
Sarah Wilhelm (TN), junior from Greenville/Greenville**
Julia Windom (CC & TR), sophomore from Bowling Green, Ohio/Lakota*
Zoann Wissner (TR), sophomore from Sebewaing/Unionville Sebewaing Area**
Brian Yount (SW), junior from Franklin, Ind./Franklin Community***
Lauren Zandstra (GO), junior from Flushing/Flushing***
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Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at UW-Madison, was featured in the video, "Ebola: UW-Madison Responds."
Charo also continues to speak with national news agencies about the ethical considerations surrounding Ebola treatment and prevention. Excerpts from several articles follow:
- "For these hospitals to make decisions because they're scared, that's a problem," said Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "But if it's because [the patient's prognosis] is futile, that's understandable." "Hospitals Wrestle with Extent of Ebola Treatment," Wall Street Journal, Oct. 31, 2014.
- "We are asking people in the world of public health over and over to put their self-interests and even their civil liberties on hold while they take actions that protect the larger community," said Charo. "Federal and State Officials at Odds over Mandatory Ebola Quarantines," WBUR's Here & Now, Oct. 27, 2014.
- "The challenge with vaccine trials is that you're trying to measure
whether people who might otherwise get sick, don't," she said. "So you
have to start with a high-risk group. And you need large numbers, and
density. So now, the trial will have to be done in West Africa where the
incidence is high." "The Ethics of Treating Ebola," Discovery News, Oct. 23, 2014.
- "The real challenge right now, says Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is stopping the current outbreak using available methods. That means providing gloves and protective suits for health care workers in West Africa, increasing the number of health care workers, isolating the sick, educating affected communities, supplying antibiotics, and promoting alternatives to dangerous cultural practices like close handling of the newly dead."
"Successful Marburg Virus Treatment Offers Hope for Ebola Patients," National Geographic, August 20, 2014.
- "Alta Charo,
professor of law and bioethics at both the University of Wisconsin's law
and medical schools, says WHO's plan 'makes sense, if [those treated]
know they are taking a gamble. There is always a risk-benefit balance,
especially in an impoverished area.'"
"Who Gets Ebola Drugs? AIDS, Dialysis and Cancer 'Cures' Point the Way" NBC News, August 19, 2014.
- "Here's some of the considerations … First of all, who's got the most urgent need, who's the closest to dying without some attempt to treatment? Who has the best chance of recovery? That might not be the person closest to dying, it might be the person who's the least sick. Where are you physically, logistically, capable of delivering it in an organized fashion where you know who needs it, how many doses they got, how many doses they need and where you can monitor what's going on in the hope of learning a little bit. So that when you use it again next week or next month you use it better. Where can it actually be delivered effectively? There are parts of some of these countries that are far from the cities, where simple things like lack of refrigeration can get in the way of being able to provide drugs in an effective way."
"Use of Experimental Ebola Serum Raises Ethical Questions," NPR News, August 11, 2014.
Submitted by Law School News on October 26, 2016
This article appears in the categories: In the Media
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As Chief Operations Officer Road Logistics (COO Road Logistics), Schilling manages the operational business for the Executive Unit Road Logistics and thus all regions of the business sectors European Logistics and Food Logistics. The Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board Michael Schilling, with his Corporate IT unit, is responsible for the worldwide infrastructure, the smooth provision of the business-critical data flow across the various business sectors as well as the information security.
He joined the team in the newly founded "Internal Logistics" department at DACHSER in 1989. His primary task was to shape the DACHSER process management for greater efficiency. His experience in the operative business started in 1990 in the subsidiary in Saarbrücken. Two years later, he switched to the subsidiary in Frankfurt, where he assumed management in 1993. After his return to the central office in the year 1996, he primarily focused on the expansion of the network infrastructure. In 2002, he was appointed as managing director of the "Euronational forwarding organization and infrastructure" department, which he had previously built up and which since has been steering DACHSER's entire European network.
Since 2005, Schilling has also been responsible for the "Contract Logistics" sector. In the year 2007, he assumed the responsibility for the "Information Technology" division. Under his leadership today, over 280 employees at the Kempten headquarters are developing IT systems that help steer logistic processes worldwide.


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In a recurring series, Vanity Fair pulls back the curtain on awards season's most visually enticing films, revealing exclusive details from the creative process of art directors, costume designers, makeup artists, cinematographers, and more. This week, the 50s-era costumes—and undergarments!—in My Week with Marilyn.
In the opening scene of My Week with Marilyn, Michelle Williams wiggles her way into character with a knockout white dress and a throaty rendition of "Heat Wave." Costume designer Jill Taylor (Sliding Doors, Match Point) had her own reason to be short of breath. Due to budget constraints, the costumer wasn't able to construct a double of the masterfully accurate gown, which was hand-detailed—bead for tiny bead—to match the original.
"That one white dress had to work solidly for 11 days—and after day four, the original metal zip broke," she says. "The way the dress was constructed, you'd have had to take the whole dress apart to get it out. So [costume assistant] Vicki [Taylor] stitched Michelle into that dress every day. Poor Michelle had to stand there for ages, and poor Vicki had to stitch her in! Every time Michelle went outside or ate something, Vicki ran after her to throw a wrap over her. The last day was the worst day of all. I couldn't even go on set; I was so neurotic about that dress. I thought: We've worked with this dress for 10 days and, Sod's law, something will happen to it on the last day. Thank God it didn't."
To add to the pressure of designing the film's wardrobe on a restricted budget in a tight time frame—just eight weeks were allotted for prep—Taylor is a self-professed Marilyn fan. "It's a huge responsibility to dress Marilyn Monroe," she says. "You want to get it right." As her primary reference for the cast and crew, Taylor dug up a still of the cast and crew of the film within the film, 1957's The Prince and The Showgirl. In the photograph, there's a young girl wearing a tartan dress, and so Lucy, the costume assistant in the film played by Emma Watson, wears a vintage tartan dress. The photograph also inspired the menswear. "For Colin [Eddie Redmayne], everything was vintage 1950s. I wanted to show the difference in 1956 between American clothing and English clothing. In England, we were still very uptight, tailored—it was not as relaxed as the American cut. So you see that with Milton [Dominic Cooper], the publicist played by Toby Jones, and Arthur Miller [Dougray Scott]. They're very American, to highlight our Englishness," she says.
Taylor also pulled reference images of Monroe's engagement and early days with Arthur Miller, and discussed them with Williams. "We talked about how we thought she should look. We've all seen the iconic Marilyn played many, many times—as well as the woman herself, on film—but people haven't really seen the private side of Marilyn," she says, hence why the film strives to show her in her personal wardrobe, going to and from studio. "What struck me was how she was way ahead of her time, in terms of simplicity. I've got loads of stills of her in England just riding her bike in a big chunky sweater in a pair of jeans and loafers. Very simple. Very easy. She was a Calvin Klein girl before there was Calvin Klein. That's the side I wanted to get across in the film."
To achieve that look, Taylor worked within Monroe's go-to palette in the era (black, white, and camel) and constructed pieces based on found images. The effect is one of instant familiarity. The viewer may not have seen Monroe pop out of a hiding place in the backseat of a car, tour Eton followed by a mass of schoolboys, or arrive on set before, but because she does so wearing items we've seen in stills—men's shirts, pencil skirts, chiffon scarves, dark glasses—the anecdotes feel accurate.
The success depended on Taylor's ability to achieve a Monroean figure from Williams's slighter frame. Far from the zaftig dimensions of a Christina Hendricks or even Scarlett Johansson, the actress's natural build doesn't immediately recall the icon's, but you wouldn't know that by watching the film. "The magic of cinema achieves that shape!" Taylor suggests, delicately. (Producer Harvey Weinstein was a bit more blunt. "We added something to her butt," he told The Huffington Post. "D'uh," replied every woman in the world.)
"Michelle is tiny. She's very petite. I had Marilyn's measurements, but I couldn't put Marilyn's measurements onto Michelle's body because she'd have looked comical. I had to scale it to fit Michelle—it was the hardest thing to achieve," she explains. "To get form-fitting clothing over a pad without a seam is incredibly difficult." For her undergarments, Taylor says, "she had a very clever bra. I gave her a conical, 50s bra from What Katie Did, a company that specializes in retro underwear."
The success of the effect, Taylor says, is largely due to matching the proportion of a garment or accessory on Monroe to Williams. For instance, for the scene where Monroe arrives in Britain, the designer watched archival newsreel footage to study how Monroe's sunglasses sat on her face. "We were mad!" she says, of creating the custom piece. "It was just millimeter measurements. We looked at where the sunglasses ended on Marilyn's face and made sure that's where they ended on Michelle's face."
More than anything, though, Taylor says, Williams's performance sells the look.
"Shall I be her?" Monroe asks her admirer, Colin Clark, at one point in the film.
"Who?" her companion replies.
"Marilyn!" she exclaims—and with just a toss of blonde hair, she is.


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Look. This is Big Brown. This is a horse. We suppose Big Brown is a good-looking, as far as horses go, though we're not sure, from this angle, if we could possibly tell the difference between Big Brown and any other horse on the planet that wasn't, you know, a zebra.
Regardless, this horse is going to be the focus of the sporting world for the next three weeks — God, please spare us another ridiculous ESPN Magazine cover — after winning the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. We find it difficult to become too inspired by a horse who, within minutes of winning the Kentucky Derby, already had an endorsement deal with UPS. Well, OK, the horse still doesn't have any idea what's going on and is mostly curious about where the oats are. But still.
Anyway, Big Brown seems to have a better-than-average chance to win the Triple Crown. If you are interested in this, bully for you; you have a more alert understanding of what's going on than Big Brown does. If you're like us, you're not, and far more absorbed by the gallantry and pageantry of the Preakness.
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WASHINGTON — The suspense gone, Mitt Romney glided into five primaries on Tuesday as the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, piling up national convention delegates while commanding the spotlight to sharpen his appeal for the campaign against President Barack Obama.
Romney was readying a prime-time primary night speech titled "A Better America Begins Today," to be delivered in New Hampshire, one of a dozen or so states expected to be battlegrounds in the fall.
There were 209 delegates at stake Tuesday in primaries in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware, the first contests since former rival Rick Santorum conceded the Republican race to Romney.
Romney began the day with 698 delegates of the 1,144 needed for the nomination, compared with 260 for Santorum, 137 for Newt Gingrich and 75 for Ron Paul.
Santorum suspended his campaign two weeks ago rather than risk losing a primary in his home state of Pennsylvania.
Gingrich, too, seemed to be heading toward the sidelines, but first he wanted to see the outcome of the primary in Delaware, where he has campaigned in recent days and has pocketed a few endorsements.
Jackie Cushman Gingrich, his daughter, said the former House speaker intended to reassess his debt-strapped candidacy on Wednesday.
The nomination in hand, Romney has begun focusing his attention on Obama in recent days, campaigning in key battleground states, appointing an aide to oversee his search for a vice presidential running mate and accelerating his fundraising for the fall.
On Monday, he offered support for Obama's call for legislation to prevent an increase in the interest rate on some student loans. In a second move toward the middle, he said his campaign was reviewing legislation to let young illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. by their parents apply for non-immigrant visas.
Under a measure being drafted by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential ticket-mate for Romney, the immigrants affected by the legislation would be allowed to study or work in the United States but would not have a special path to citizenship.
At the same time, Romney is slowly accumulating the delegates to ratify his nomination at the party convention in Tampa, Fla., this summer.
He picked up 12 delegates at congressional district conventions over the weekend in Missouri, a state Santorum once planned to contest heavily in hopes of blocking Romney's path to victory.


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Inspired by Chris Gammell's post about "trickle down techonomy," Ben Krasnow posted this how-to video on making your own Astronaut Ice Cream. He used a vacuum pump, dry ice, and various hoses and fittings to freeze dry ice cream that can be easily enjoyed any time you're out in space or even on terra firma. [via CRAFT]
How-To: Homemade Astronaut Ice Cream


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