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A share-a-thon is a place where teachers can voluntarily upload their files for other teachers to use. When a teacher submits a file, it is catalogued and placed into a database. To view more materials from the topic above or from different branches of science click here.
Air Pressure & Wind Speeds (in A Tropical Storm System)
Using data from Hurricane Ike students plot charts to understand the relationship of low pressue to storm severity
Ground Level Ozone
Objectives: differentiate between the good and bad ozone, locate the position in the atmosphere where the good and bad ozone reside, plot monthly ozone data and understand the ground level ozone effects on humans and plants.
The M & M (not The Rapper) Lab
Graphing lab using m & m's candies. Kids love this lab.
Oreo Moon Phases
Use this activity to enhance the understanding of the Moon's phases. Oreo cookies provide the information!
Determining The Density Of Different Things
Simple worksheet where the student calculates the density of different sized cubes. There are also some conclusion and practice questions.
Sun's Path
I tried doing this lab in a more open-ended, inquiry-based format. It may or may not succeed. Modify if you want to.
Density Of Fluids
Students will need to find the mass and density of four unknown fluids, given a 10 mL sample of each.
The Ellipse
Students draw and analyze two ellipses: Calculation of eccentricity; Understanding of range and significance of eccentricity; Compare eccentricities of drawn ellipses to planetary orbit eccentricities; Challenge component.
Seasons And Sunpath
In this lab, you will use a plastic hemisphere to represent the dome of the sky. You will need to imagine that you are at the center of the base of the dome. The border around your globe, where it touches the table is your horizon.
Design A Hiking Trail
Students work in a group to design a hiking trail system on a real topographic map using specific criteria. Project includes design of an informational brochure and completion of a data sheet.


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Library Crawl 2018
Welcome to the 2018 NaperWriMo Superhero Library Crawl, part of the local events supporting the USA::Illinois::Naperville region of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Be sure to consider attending some or all of our four planned workshops in October (as always, all of our events are free!).
Writing a novel can be a daunting experience--it is a complex, huge task. But if you ease into it, you will find that it can be a manageable, rich experience that you can savor.
- 1 How do I prepare for NaNoWriMo?
- 2 What is the Library Crawl?
- 3 When are the write-ins? Who is hosting?
- 4 What are the write-in logistics?
- 5 What do I do with all of the library cards?
- 6 What do NaNo participants do?
- 7 How do I enter the prize drawing?
- 8 What are the prizes and how many prizes can I win?
- 9 Do I have to be present to win?
- 10 Which libraries are participating?
- 11 map
How do I prepare for NaNoWriMo?
There are four preparatory workshops in October this year. See the calendar for details. If you've missed the preparatory workshops, see the notes and slides from all our past workshops.
What is the Library Crawl?
The brainchild of Sarah Kovac (librarian at Carol Stream and sarahk06 on NaNoWriMo), the Library Crawl is intended to add a bit of fun to NaNoWriMo and encourage participants to visit each of the participating libraries in November, attending their write-in events. This year, NaNoWriMo's theme is "NaNoWriMo is..." and all our libraries have dived into the theme. Each library will be passing out their own meme version of the theme, created by the region's MLs. Try to collect as many as you can!
When are the write-ins? Who is hosting?
During the month of November, there is a write-in almost every day of the month thanks to our super libraries. In many cases, there are more than one. Check out our full calendar of events.
Some write-ins are actively hosted by the MLs, other Wrimos, or library staff. There may be word wars, huzzah balls and other games (box of doom, for instance) and maybe even some small prizes to encourage a lot of writing.
Write-ins without hosts can be good for folks who want a space to write and possibly power for their laptop.
Most of our write-ins are at libraries (who generously provide a private space and often snacks), but other locations have included bars, restaurants, coffee shops, local colleges, trains, and town halls.
You can also find online write-ins every day in our online chatroom.
What are the write-in logistics?
See the events page or view or download this two page brochure (PDF).
We highly recommend for you to go to as many write-ins as you can. The more write-ins you to go, the more likely you are to reach that 50K word goal. And for each library crawl write-in you go to, you collect a themed library card. Trust us, you want those cards.
What do I do with all of the library cards?
Keep them for prize raffle tickets at the Thank Goodness It's Over Party. Many writers keep them with their laptops or novel notebooks, other keep cards with their NaNoWriMo hipster PDA. In 2018, we will be distributing the hipster PDAs at the preparatory workshops in October.
What do NaNo participants do?
Just attend the scheduled write-ins and be sure to pick up the write-in specific collectible cover from the write-in host. The larger your collection, the greater your chance of winning a prize at our Thank Goodness It's Over Party (TGIO).
Note: you should put your NaNo username (and optionally your novel title) on each card you receive.
How do I enter the prize drawing?
Bring your library crawl comics to the TGIO party on Saturday, December 8th at the Naperville Municipal Center. Each card will earn you a ticket into the prize drawing.
What are the prizes and how many prizes can I win?
Each super NaNoWriMo participant is eligible for two prizes. The first one of the smaller prizes donated by members of the region or local businesses. Past prizes have included NaNoWriMo gear & posters, books, coffee, notebooks, and mugs. The second is a grand prize offered by the libraries - a $100 dollar Amazon gift card.
Library | Prize |
Carol Stream | $100 gift card |
Joliet Junior College | $10 Amazon gift cards (3) |
Fountaindale Public Library | $10 Dunkin' gift cards (2) |
Plainfield Public Library District | $10 Starbucks (3) |
Elmhurst Public Library | Out of Print Composition Mug ($12) and Out of Print Library Card Natural Pouch ($12) |
Do I have to be present to win?
Yes, to win a prize you must attend the TGIO party. However, if you can't make it you are still welcome collect comic covers at the write-ins and join us in our heroic quest for a finished novel!
Which libraries are participating?

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Project: Red Hill Residence
Designed by David Luck Architecture
Location: Victorian Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne, Australia
Website: davidluckarchitecture.com.au
A romantic contemporary gateway designed by David Luck Architecture for a location in the Victorian Mornington Peninsula.
From the Architects:
Located on the Victorian Mornington Peninsula this house begins in the centre of metropolitan Melbourne. To reach the house one drives for one hour through the flat south eastern suburbs and is rewarded with a slow rise up into Red Hill. Across the Arthurs Seat escarpment the car journey stops in a gravel and leaf strewn driveway. From the car and along the boardwalk expectation is raised for a glimpse of Port Phillip Bay. Once inside the dwelling the ramp lifts your body and spirit higher, howev er the view out the fully glazed end of the ramp is blocked by a detached section of the building. This glass skin is punctured by a steel bridge that leads into the main room, twisted on axis to true north and on axis back to the central city of Melbourne. Window openings on this room are on all the cardinal points. Views to the Bay and Melbourne are forfeited so one turns back – inward. Lookout house emphasis becomes of the self and not one of external entertainment. On the edge of our metropolis how do we define ourselves, actually, in the indigenous Australian landscape? Perched on the Pacific Rim with the steadily advancing USA cultural juggernaut on one side and the near East of Japanese exotic and ancient culture on the other. How does a white boy in an old Koori land, an educated suburban boy now indoctrinated by Western architectural history build in this landscape? Lookout house stares into the environment that is plotted and dotted by Kimberley artist Rover Thomas. Before that Sidney Nolan was exploring an existential alienation in the Australian environment with his Ned Kelly series. Behind the black minimalist object you can sense the intellect, hope and spirit of Australia. The black object is not of the ground but floats over it propped on a stick figure. Floating through the judicial and social systems looking for a peaceful future. The lookout house offers a different view of the future. It is a metaphysical lookout that although located on top of a hill in pristine bushland is more about being in the landscape and a process of life. About becoming a part of the complex ecosystem that is indigenous. Outsid e the black walls are like shadows strung between the charcoal edged bark of the stringy barks. By night absolute blackness of the landscape merges with the inside black walls. Artificial lighting on the people and furniture inside have an exaggerated theatrical effect. Born of Glenn Murcutts extruded pavilion houses here layers of more complexity and critical connections to landscape are explored. The large solid tectonic wall and floor planes are tilted and opened to direct ones body. Compressing and releasing emotion into the landscape. Miesian language is cross-polinated with Japanese notions of platform. Fingers of the building reach out to the indigenous landscape to connect and question. Form has a crusty power with the theatrics now on the inside. Plate glass, steel sheet, sliding walls are cut out of the light to make direct, sincere plastic spaces continuing the modernist project in a critical direction.
The lookout house unites the ancient landscape with modern Australia. Taking touch the earth lightly Glenn Murcutt as starting point, four floor levels and ramp have been broken across the contours of the land. Various pavilions are built on top of this substructure determining the spatial flow. Seasonal elements and broader architectural and spatial contexts. The ramp is a culmination of the journey from the city and is also a type of enclosed verandah – linking up and opening up to the functional rooms on the east and closing down to the heat of the sun from the west. A tatami proportioned and spatially still bedroom cantilevers out to the east with ceilings, bed canopy and bed laying space to the scale of the sleeping body. Gently sliding doors delineate the platform edge against the native grasses and wildflowers outside. An eight-metre long glass box kitchen becomes an aquarium workspace for dwelling and releases the sense out under the tree canopies. This is a Miesian modernist device that secures against coldness and insects. At the end of the ramp is the main room with mixed living, dining, bedroom and terrace functions. The myth of lifestyle lounge suite concepts have been exploded with the moveable walls with in built sofas. These expand and contract as space within the space. Here the Wallpaper life of slab sofas and beautiful skin is avoided. As the interior collides with the outside how do we attach ourselves to place? How do we make place in our land? We might have to get off our B and B sofas and plant our bottoms in the leaf litter outside. The lookout's spaces ask what is this relationship. Is it as Le Corbusier drew it as a landscape forming a pretty backdrop to a macho man and domesticated women relaxing on a Saturday afternoon after a week of capitalist exertion. In this project an uneasy relationship with landscape is described. Silent, blind, visually connected yet emotionally detached. A black box of the mind that locks into the emotional landform of ancient Australia. Taking the debate of ownership and occupation further as Architecture as the mother of art can only do.
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NE 33rd Drive BIG Culvert Project Completed
Mar 20, 2014 at 4:45 PM 2 Comments
Environmental Services replaced a culvert at NE 33rd Drive where it crosses the Buffalo Slough, a southern arm of the Columbia Slough. The old culvert was too small and too high — all that water, trying to get through that little round metal culvert. This warmed up the Slough and caused water quality problems. The old culvert also prevented fish and wildlife passage. The slough is home to native fish, mussels, turtles and many bird species.
The NE 33rd Drive culvert, before construction
The new box style culvert is 12 feet high and its design that allows plenty of water flow that improves water quality and fish passage. Construction required deep excavation, a temporary dam, extreme care around existing utility and fiber optic lines, and constant pumping of the high ground water in this area. The project also included building new sidewalks on NE 33rd Drive and street-side planters that manage stormwater runoff on both sides of the street. See the photos of the new culvert below, and learn more about the NE 33rd Drive Culvert Project here.
The 33rd Drive culvert, after construction
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Colleen Cunningham
Wow, what a difference. So much healthier flow. I can't wait to see the area after it revegetates.
Bruce Campbell
The completed 33rd Ave. culvert is a tremendous improvement over the old one, increasing the efficiency of water flow on the Buffalo Pond. It has also been landscaped nicely with native plants. With increased pumping efficiency, however, water levels on Buffalo Pond have fluctuated drastically, adversely impacting habitat, detracting from the natural beauty of the area, and making it impossible to kayak. On some days, the water is low enough to become a mud flat--something that has never occurred before in my memory. When the water is up, it's still far below levels necessary to maintain environmental viability. I spoken to Josh McNamee at MCDD about this problem, and he hopes an engineering solution can be formulated and implemented that will safeguard and preserve the Buffalo Pond's ecosystems.
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What is Ellogon? - Data Model
Article Index
Ellogon shares the same data model as the TIPSTER architecture. Due to this, it shares some basic features with other TIPSTER-based infrastructures, such as GATE. However, it also offers a large number of features that differentiate it from such infrastructures.
The central element for storing data in Ellogon is the Collection. A collection is a finite set of Documents. An Ellogon document consists of textual data as well as linguistic information about the textual data. This linguistic information is stored in the form of attributes and annotations.
An attribute associates a specific type of information with a typed value. An annotation associates arbitrary information (in the form of attributes) with portions of textual data. Each such portion, named span, consists of two character offsets denoting the start and the end characters of the portion, as measured from the first character of some textual data. Annotations typically consist of four elements:
- A numeric identifier. This identifier is unique for every annotation within a document and can be used to unambiguously identify the annotation.
- A type. Annotation types are textual values that are used to classify annotations into categories.
- A set of spans that denote the range of the annotated textual data.
- A set of attributes. These attributes usually encode the necessary linguistic information.


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Today, Syria signed an agreement that would allow Arab League observers into the country. It's all in a bid to end its isolation and the nine-month standoff between the government of President Bashar Assad and protesters who are demanding his ouster.
"The regime's final acceptance of the deal comes after mounting international pressure to end a bloody crackdown on protest that the UN says has killed at least 5,000 and shows signs of descending into civil war.
"Syria appears to prefer to give Arab nations a chance to end the crisis instead of inviting wider international involvement.
"Syria's foreign minister, Walid al-Moualem, said: 'The signing of the protocol is the beginning of co-operation between us and the Arab League, and we will welcome the Arab League observers.'"
Now, it's important to remember that Syria has signed these kinds of agreements before to no end. The United States, reports the AFP, very quickly expressed doubt about Syria's commitment.
"A signature on a piece of paper from a regime like this, that has broken promise after promise after promise, means relatively little to us," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters, according to AFP. "We're not prepared to welcome anything but concrete steps that improve the lives of the Syrian people and end the violence."
And as the agreement was signed, violence again raged in Syria. The BBC reports that 60 to 70 military defectors "were gunned down in the north-western Idlib province." The opposition said 30 others had been killed in the clashes on Monday.
Separately, the United Nations General Assembly voted to condemn the crackdown. Russia and China, reports Reuters, abstained from the vote.
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Chevrolet is now offering Corvette Z06 or ZR1 Buyers the option to go to the engine factory and build the engine (under supervision) that will go into their Corvette!
Would you want to do this with your Cadillac CTS-V? Actually, the Chevrolet option is enabled by the fact that the engines for these models are made by hand at the Performance Center, as the 4.4L S/C V8 in the STS-V was from 2006-2009. Offering the same option on other models would require a bit more thought. It is a special experience to help build your next car, and I hope that GM continues to develop this type of thoughtful interactive option.
DETROIT – For enthusiasts who want to be personally involved in creating their Corvette, Chevrolet's new Corvette Engine Build Experience allows them to literally build the engine for their new car.
In what is believed to be the world's most hands-on super car program, customers who order a 2011 Corvette Z06 or ZR1 can choose an option to help assemble their cars' LS7 or LS9 engines at General Motors' Performance Build Center (PBC) in Wixom, Mich.
"Corvette owners are some of the most passionate – and most involved – enthusiasts in the industry," said Jim Campbell, U.S. vice president, Chevrolet marketing. "The Corvette Engine Build Experience offers customers an unprecedented opportunity to participate, hands on, in creating the car."
In addition to building their own engines, Corvette buyers can attend driving school in Arizona or Nevada, take delivery of their vehicles at the National Corvette Museum or watch their vehicles being built at the Corvette assembly plant in Bowling Green, Ky.
"In a way, this is a dream program for a Corvette customer. I would have jumped at the chance to build the 427 in my '67 'Vette, and that didn't have half of what goes into one of these modern precision engines," said Tom Stephens, GM vice chairman, Global Product Operations. "Today's LS7 and LS9 Corvette engines are pinnacle achievements in engineering, and to personally involve our customers in their final creation shows the depth of Chevrolet's commitment to make lasting connections with the customer."
The Engine Build Experience is an option with a suggested retail price of $5,800. When a customer selects the PBC option for a 2011 Corvette Z06 or ZR1 and the dealer submits the order to Chevrolet, a special concierge contacts the customer to verify participation and help coordinate arrangements. While travel arrangements to and from Metro Detroit are the customer's responsibility, the Chevrolet concierge helps schedule the engine build; coordinates the customer's activities at the Performance Build Center; assists with booking local lodging and meals, and arranges local transportation.
At the PBC, the customer doesn't merely view the engine's assembly; he or she builds it under the supervision of and support from skilled technicians. When the engine is assembled, a personalized nameplate is added to the engine next to the builder's name. It is then sent to the Corvette assembly plant for installation in the customer's car.
The Corvette Engine Build Experience is possible because of the hand-assembly processes used at the 100,000-square-foot PBC. Technicians hand-build the Corvette Z06's LS7 7.0L engine, the Corvette ZR1's 6.2L supercharged LS9 engine and a variation of the Corvette Grand Sport's LS3 6.2L engine. The PBC incorporates the best practices of low-volume niche manufacturers and the established quality and manufacturing standards at GM to ensure the highest-quality specialized engines.
Like all engines assembled at the PBC, Engine Build Experience engines are covered by Chevrolet's five year / 100,000-mile transferable powertrain warranty.
The Engine Build experience is the latest program Chevrolet offers for Corvette owners. Other programs include:
- Corvette plant tour, where customers can follow their vehicle down the Bowling Green assembly line
- Corvette Museum delivery, where customers take delivery of their new Corvette at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green
- Corvette ZR1 Driving School, which offers complimentary attendance at either Bob Bondurant's Corvette Driving School in Arizona, or Ron Fellows' Corvette Performance Driving School near Las Vegas.
"Simply put, no other sports car manufacturer can match the level of personal customer involvement that Corvette offers," Campbell said. "The Corvette Engine Build Experience takes this personal involvement to an unprecedented level."
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A PET-CT scanner merges both PET and CT capabilities into one machine to identify abnormal tissue and its location. However, standard scanners of the past often overlooked small lesions because of motion caused by the respiratory cycle, the beating heart, or patient movement.
New technology allows a PET-CT scanner to detect lesions down to 2.0 mm and to better delineate boundaries, thus finding cancerous tissue earlier and saving viable tissue from radiation exposure. These scanners also have respiratory gating capabilities, adding detail and clarity to areas that are subject to motion, such as the heart and lungs.
During this procedure, the patient will first receive a radiopharmaceutical injection, which takes about 60 to 90 minutes to distribute itself throughout the body.
The patient then lies on a table that moves slowly through a ring-like scanner as it acquires the information it needs to generate PET and CT images. The patient should not feel anything during the scan, which can last from 15 to 60 minutes.
The motion-free platform of the scanner allows physicians to accurately identify multiple small lesions in areas affected by movement. The physician can review these detailed images after the scan is completed. In addition, the scanner has software that memorizes and overlays lesions so differences can be detected from appointment to appointment.


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Q: We have been in customer discovery for a few months and have a situation in a negotiation that I am not sure how to deal with. A decision maker at a potential customer says he believes that our product can help but it's not addressing a burning problem. The wrinkle that I have not encountered before: he says he would like to pursue this idea on his own so he wants us to compensate him for the ideas he is bringing. Any advice on how to look at the situation or how best to handle it?
Some Questions to Consider:
- Who owns the ideas that he gave you?
- Has he disclosed them to his company?
- Are they his ideas or the company's property?
- Have you signed a non-disclosure either with him personally or with the company?
- Did he give you the ideas freely or did he ask to be paid before he disclosed them?
- Are there patents involved or does he plan to patent them?
If he is asking for a personal payment made to him, and not to the company, but it's something you plan to sell to his company then you are walking into an ethical minefield. If he plans to pursue them himself it's probably better to let him go on his way and talk to other folks who are not conflicted.
Act As If Everything You Do Will Become Public
As a rule of thumb it's best to act as if everything that you do will become fully know to all of the parties involved or affected by your actions. This side payment request does not sound like it would pass that test the way that you have described it.
If his company is not aware of the fact that he has ideas for improving internal processes or workflows and he is trying to sell them to you there are some potential conflicts there.
Normal Negotiation Flow For New Technology
Normally what would happen is that they would disclose to your their needs, specific ideas for functionality and perhaps implementation options, constraints that your solution has to observe, and other relevant factors. You would either develop a custom product that is their property (work for hire) or you would develop a product you could sell to them and to others. The product might be sold at a discount to them to reflect their contribution, they might ask that you not sell it to named competitors for a a period of time (6,12,24 months). In the first case you would be developing a custom implementation, in the second case you would be developing a solution that they would like to become an industry standard–perhaps after enjoying a temporary period of advantage over competitors–and they want to spread the cost of development across many players in the industry.
You Normally Don't Make Side Payments
You don't normally make side payments to individuals. One exception might be that the other party wants to leave his current job at your prospect company and come to work directly for you. But you want to be very careful about making payments to employees of firms or government agencies that you are trying to do business with. The employer may view it as a bribe or kickback. This is also true for offers of stock or stock options in your firm and payments to relatives or entities controlled by the employee but not part of the prospect company.
Related Blog Posts
- Honesty In Negotiations
I always assume that at some point in the future the folks I am negotiating will know the full truth of the situation and that very few secrets remain that way for long. - Building a Business Requires Building Trust
Working with bootstrappers sometimes puts us on teams that are in desperate circumstances. Where they are able to translate time pressure and resource starvation into a bias for action from a change in perspective they often succeed–or at least move beyond the current crisis: success, like the horizon, is an imaginary line you can approach but never seen to cross. But where they use it as an excuse to take shortcuts that abuse prospects trust we sometimes have to part company. - The Lucky and the Wise
It can be hard to assess whose advice to take about your business. One reason for cultivating at least a kitchen cabinet of informal advisors if not a more formal advisory board is that a diversity of perspectives can normally provide more insights into opportunities, risks, and options for managing them. Advice from a lucky entrepreneur tends to be very specific and suggest a "copy exactly" model, a wise entrepreneur will offer principles and several alternatives with one or two approaches recommended as most likely to succeed or least risky. - Treat Social Capital With The Same Care as Cash
Trust Doesn't Scale, It's Knit by Aligning Actions With Prior Commitments


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Atquetzali in her backyard (photo by T. T. Cheng)
This fall, The House on Mango Street appears on Park Square Theatre's Proscenium Stage on October 21 and 22 for public audiences (Education weekday matinees continue through Nov 4). Adapted by playwright Amy Ludwig from Sandra Cisneros' acclaimed novel of the same title, The House on Mango Street is a story-told-in-vignettes about Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in a poor Latino neighborhood in Chicago. The young Esperanza, whose name means "hope," is played by Saint Paul Public Schools ninth-grader Atquetzali Quiroz.
Scenes from A House on Mango Street (Photos by Petronella J. Ystma)
Miss Quiroz had never acted until the summer before sixth grade when she took part in a camp program called Flipside TeenVenture. She and her friends were tasked with creating a performance on bullying, and Miss Quiroz played the bully. This fun experience opened her up to later take part in school plays, including auditioning and getting a lead role in the seventh grade.
In 2015, she appeared with her mother Mary Anne in a Lake Street Arts! Stories Matter video series shown at Pangea World Theater, highlighting their work as local artists and culture-bearers of Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli and Indigenous Roots, with a relation to Minneapolis' Lake Street. And in 2016, she reconnected with Pangea, becoming part of its ensemble for Conference of the Birds (Quiroz was a sparrow), a play based on a 12th-century Sufi poem by Farid un-Din Attar and staged to counter the nation's unrelenting negative political rhetoric.
This July, Miss Quiroz completed filming for her first movie role in Director Jesse Mast's Kid West. The movie is about a cowgirl and her Native American friend, played by Quiroz, in a race against neighborhood bullies to find a mysterious treasure possessing mystical powers. It is still in post-production.
But it was Miss Quiroz's work at Pangea's Conference of the Birds that caught the attention of Signe V. Harriday, the director of The House on Mango Street. Harriday asked her to audition for the play, then ultimately cast her in the role of the young Esperanza.
Miss Quiroz did not read Cisneros' book until after getting the part but described it as "my mom's favorite book." During her own reading of Esperanza's story, she easily connected with the character, her coming-of-age journey and the Mango Street setting.
The past few years have been unexpectedly heady ones for a girl who had not initially ever considered being on stage. Now, she may consider a performing arts school when it comes time to consider high schools.
Rehearsals for The House on Mango Street began in mid-September, the day after Atquetzali's birthday. Matinee performances for school groups started will run until November 4.


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Many international celebrity brides have chosen Janita Helova hair and makeup artist for they italy weddings. She's responsible for those gorgeous glowy wedding day looks of vip stars who have married in Italy and she just recently styles many of the vip guests of designer Misha Nonoo and mutimillionaire Michael Hess wedding in Rome.
1. Princess Alexandra Massimo di Roccasecca who married Prince Valerio Massimo di Roccasecca family owned Castle in Arsoli just outside Rome.
2. Formula 1 champion Kimi Ràikkònen wife Minttu Raikkonen married in Tuscany
3. Turkish actress Şükran Ovali married famous football player Caner Erkin in Rome with intimate wedding with just a family members.
4. Hollywood celebrity stylist Belen Salomon trusted her wedding day and also her evening look for Janita. Belen married her long time partner film producer Alejandro Salomon in famous hotel La Posta Vecchia in Ladispoli.
5. S.S Lazio football player Aurimas Vilkaitis wife Milda Vilkaitis had a lovely wedding in Rome city center


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Don't Allow Keystone XL Kops to Threaten U.S. Energy Independence | Commentary
The Keystone Kops, fictional incompetent policemen featured in silent film in the early 20th century, are back in less comedic and all too real form with a new mission to block development of the Keystone XL pipeline and trip up efforts to obtain the requisite government approvals that will enable the United States to enhance its energy independence.
Today's Keystone Kops, a self-appointed collection of environmental and land use groups, hope that repeated reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Mineral Leasing Act, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of 1899 can be made to resemble a slapstick comedy in which nothing ultimately gets done, which for them would spell victory.
After nearly five years of regulatory wrestling over the development of the transcontinental pipeline, the case to move forward with Keystone XL is too compelling to warrant further delay.
First, the pipeline will have tremendous economic benefits, representing billions of dollars of potential investment and thousands of skilled jobs in the United States. The State Department estimates the Keystone XL project will create 20,000 jobs directly and 10 times more indirectly. Not surprisingly, many of America's trade unions strongly support the pipeline project. Further, increased petroleum supply will help us at the pump where most Americans feel that we already are paying too much.
Second, from a national security perspective, we now have the potential to reduce our reliance on energy imports from countries in the OPEC cartel by securing access to petroleum from our most northern neighbor. Once the pipeline is complete, the U.S. would immediately become less vulnerable to political and security-related disruptions of our energy supply. We would boost energy security, while simultaneously decreasing our dependence on oil from the Middle East and Venezuela. The XL pipeline, projected to carry both Canadian oil sands crude and Bakken shale crude from North Dakota to our refineries on the Gulf Coast, offers a conduit between responsible, secure suppliers and willing customers, all within North America.
Third, the U.S. State Department has twice conducted environmental-impact assessments and concluded that development of the pipeline would result in "no substantive change in global GHG emissions." The Nebraska state government reached a similar conclusion when it reviewed the latest proposed pipeline route through the state. In fact, the planned pipeline is both safer and cleaner than the probable alternatives, which include rail shipment to a fleet of tankers in Northwest waters. Those modes of transportation also burn diesel and, unlike pipelines, would have the effect of increasing our carbon footprint.
Ironically, the Keystone Kops' efforts, if successful, would divert Canadian oil to Asia for use by China and other countries doing vastly less to address climate change and auto emissions than the United States, which boasts some of the cleanest refineries anywhere in the world. Moreover, of the top five suppliers of oil to the United States, only Canada has greenhouse gas regulations in place.
Why would the United States impose higher economic costs at home while enhancing the fortunes of our economic rivals? If the oil does not flow south of the Canadian border, it will likely flow west to China. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said as much, calling U.S. approval of the Keystone XL a "no brainer" and contending that the decision to delay the pipeline "highlights why Canada must increase its efforts to ensure it can supply its energy outside the U.S. and into Asia in particular."
Not one to miss an opportunity, Chinese President Hu Jintao recently visited with the Canadian prime minister and, recognizing its economic and geostrategic importance, Chinese state-owned oil companies are chomping at the bit to secure permanent access to North American energy sources. Despite all of this as well as an executive order governing Keystone-related activity intended to "accelerate" cross-border energy projects, the Keystone Kops remain determined to do all they can to block approval of the pipeline.
The State Department and the Obama administration are expected to issue a final decision on the future of the Keystone XL pipeline following expiration of the comment period for the draft supplemental environmental-impact statement. After years of obfuscation, obstruction and delay, it is time for the curtain to fall on the Keystone Kops and for the United States to move forward with the Keystone XL pipeline consistent with our economic, national security and environmental interests.
J.C. Boggs is a partner with the government advocacy and public policy group of King & Spalding LLP in Washington, D.C.


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"Everyones talking about expert crafters and authors of brand new book Everything Oz, Christine Leech and Hannah Read-Baldrey" Marie Claire
Everything Oz is the much awaited second book in the Everything Series from Christine Leech and Hannah Read-Baldrey. Follow the Yellow Brick Road and get swept along by the cyclone force of Everything Oz, where dreams are brought to life. The classic tale of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum provides the inspiration for this spell-binding and creative collection of 50 makes and bakes, ranging from a Dress-up Dorothy Doll and Toto's Dog Jacket to the Tin Woodman's Heart Garland, Cowardly Lion Hand Puppet and Squashed Wicked Witch Cupcakes. The authors of the ground-breaking craft book Everything Alice, have interpreted this perennially popular tale in their own unique way to create all the projects in this latest book which is filled with yet more original and playful ideas for the eclectic craft lover. Everything Oz is brimming with new and innovative craft projects to eat, drink and wear, so slip on a pair of Sequinned Slippers a walk to the shops to buy this book, because, because, because, because, because - of the wonderful things it does!


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Napier Leads UConn Over Kentucky
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Shabazz Napier scored 22 points and Connecticut won its second NCAA title in four years, beating all those Kentucky freshmen 60-54 in the championship game Monday night.
Napier is among three UConn seniors who were part of the Huskies' 2011 title. That trio stayed after coach Jim Calhoun's retirement even when the Huskies were ineligible for the NCAA tournament last season.
They came back strong in coach Kevin Ollie's second season, and the Huskies (32-8) went all the way to their fourth overall title.
Kentucky (29-11), with five freshmen starters, never led in the championship game.
The Wildcats missed 11 of 24 free throws, while the Huskies were perfect on 10 tries.


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Ban on Electronic Devices in New York?
New York Lawyer reported on July 22 that local attorneys are protesting interim rules that severely limit their ability to bring laptops, cellphones, and other electronic devices into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse located in lower Manhattan. The rules, which are linked to from the article, require an attorney to get a court order to bring specific devices into the courtrooms. At a hearing held yesterday, attorneys aired their objections to the interim rules and also attempted "to fend off proposed stricter permanent rules on the use of the devices, which one lawywer called 'an essential part of modern life.'" Underlying the interim rules are two concerns on the part of the judges: 1.) the possibility of a laptop or other device concealing an explosive; and 2.) the possibility of someone using an electronic device to televise or transmit proceedings live from a courtroom. The second concern was raised on June 29 at the sentencing of Bernard L. Madoff when a woman tried to record the proceedings. The device was seized, and the woman issued a summons. The judges are also concerned that witnesses or jurors could be photographed, potentially jeopardizing their safety. The court is "accepting written comments [on electronic devices in the courtroom] until July 31 ..." Stay tuned.


text: Bob Drzyzgula <bob at drzyzgula.org> writes: > This, I find, is a strong dividing line. By and large > (not with exclusivity, but IME there is certainly a trend) > systems programmers use vi and applications programmers > use emacs. I've seen more than my share of Unix hackers over the years, and I spot no such trends. Generally, it seems to be a question of what you learned first. > See, I cut my teeth [1] on a Sun 2/120 with a multibus SCSI > adapter, with a 71MB hard drive and a QIC tape drive. This > was running SunOS 1.1 (cf. BSD 4.1), Vax 11/750 for me. Before that I hacked on Tops-20, where the editor of choice was the original emacs written in teco, thus my brain has been wired for Emacs for a quarter century or so. (The stuff I used before that was all line editor oriented and didn't stick in my brain.) > and I can assure you that it didn't have no stinkin' Emacs; It most certainly did, you simply didn't install it. :) > Bill Joy ran the OS development for Sun and anyway, James Gosling's > Unix/C port of Emacs was just starting to make the rounds [2]. By the time of SunOS 1.1, I believe there was Unipress emacs around, as you note. In any case, the Suns I used of that vintage had Emacs available. (I have a genuine Sun 1 sitting in my mom's garage still -- double digit serial number.) > [2] We did at one point buy some licenses for Unipress > Emacs (the commercialized version of Gosling Emacs), but > only a few hardy souls ever forced themselves to make use > of it. Where I was, the '20 heads kind of insisted on Emacsen. Unfortunately, gosmacs didn't have a real extension language, so Gnu Emacs (which arrived quite shortly) was considered a big plus... Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com


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Artist Celestia Morgan is looking forward now that she graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) last Saturday with a bachelor's degree in studio art, but it is in looking back that she finds her inspiration.
Morgan, 31, was born and raised in Birmingham. She is a photographer whose primary style is retrospective imagery; she also creates sculpture. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) is highlighting Morgan's two most recent photographic series, "Family Recipe" and "In Retrospect," with a solo show in its Milestone Gallery through Feb. 24, 2013.
"In Retrospect" is inspired by the socioeconomic transformation of the artist's childhood community. The series of photographs pays homage to what inspired Morgan in her youth, as well as who she is now and her dreams of what she will become.
"Family Recipe" reflects on the artist's childhood memories of special times spent cooking and sharing with her mother.
"The 'Family Recipe' series stems from memories of times I spent with my mother cooking in the kitchen," Morgan said. "I watched her make biscuits and other soul-food dishes the way her mother taught her. I never met my grandmother, but I felt a spiritual connection to her in this series. In these photographs, I focus deliberately on the hands and the ingredients — flour, milk and salt — by eliminating the environment. The hands portray a meticulous care in mixing the ingredients, in preparation for the nourishment of the family."
Through the photographs, Morgan wants to honor her grandmother while evoking the viewer's memories of family members or friends who used a recipe that was handed down through generations.
"These traditions and memories provide that connection to our past," she said. "Food is an important part of the African-American community. It contains a power that binds families together from generation to generation. It is at the dinner table where family is nourished physically and spiritually. However, without a determined effort, these family food traditions may be lost and become memories of the past."
Morgan developed a love for photography at Jackson-Olin High School while documenting the Junior ROTC with a 35mm film camera. Inspired to become the first member of her immediate family to receive a college education, Morgan earned an associate's degree in elementary education at Lawson State Community College in 2004. She later came to UAB with the intention of majoring in elementary education but soon applied for the bachelor of fine arts (BFA) program. Her work was recently on display in the annual BFA Student Show at UAB's Visual Arts Gallery.
Her work has been reviewed by the Photo Guild of the Birmingham Museum of Art, and she was named one of Seven Emerging Artists; by Yale Art Professor David Hilliard; and by nationally renowned artist Willie Cole. Morgan's work has been featured in Aura: Literary Art Review, South x Southeast and the Society for Photographic Education's online spotlight.
She represented UAB and Professor Sonja Reiger, M.F.A., of the Department of Art and Art History, at the Society of Photographic Education 2010 National Conference in Atlanta. Additionally, through UAB's Department of Art and Art History, Morgan received the 2011-2012 Elite Senior Scholarship. She is the first African-American female recipient of the award.


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Cindy Chang was driving from Southern California to a childhood friend's wedding in Arizona in early March when she was pulled over at an immigration checkpoint and asked if she was a citizen of the United States. She said no, and offered her South Korean passport.
"They told me I was going to get deported," Chang said of the border-patrol officers she encountered on the outskirts of Yuma. "I kept insisting, 'Please check again. Please check again.' What they were telling me was that I don't belong there [in the U.S.]."
Arizona is notoriously inhospitable to immigrants, and birthed aggressive "paper's please" legislation bound for ruling in the Supreme Court.
An eight-year-old deportation order that Chang—who came to the U.S. when she was 7—was seeing for the first time had caught up with her. Chang knew she wasn't here legally, but had thought her application was still pending, and her status thus unresolved.
At border patrol, Chang called her dad and texted friends. Everyone who knew and loved her flew into action. But they couldn't move quickly enough to prevent her from boarding a bus to Eloy Detention Center, where she surrendered her own clothes and says she was demeaned by guards until they realized she spoke perfect English. She said Eloy staff spent time "barking orders" at detainees and "giving us the death glare to eat faster, walk faster. I don't know why they can't say please or thank you," Cindy said.
She was detained at the facility many have compared to jail, with no clear timetable for how long she'd be there and the looming prospect of imminent deportation to a country she hadn't seen in 20 years, and whose language she barely speaks.
With help from the Methodist church community where she teaches Sunday school, her Congressman Mike Honda, the Asian Law Caucus, and a petition with more than 2,000 signatures from change.org, the San Jose resident was granted an extremely rare temporary stay of removal and was freed from Eloy, which can hold more than 1,500 female detainees at one time, after just three weeks.
The detention center is the last stop in the U.S. for most of the people held there, according to Chang's attorney at the Asian Law Caucus, Anoop Prasad, who has 30 clients currently detained.
Chang—who attended elementary, high school and a two-year college in the United States, has a clean record and a job managing accounts and answers phones at an insurance agency—seems like the model immigrant for President Obama's executive order on immigration announced Friday, which he says "lifts the shadow of deportation," from young people like her, and instead concentrates efforts on extraditing illegal criminals.
"It makes no sense to expel talented young people who, for all intents and purposes, are Americans," the president said in his announcement.
Advocates and coalitions of youth who staged protests and sit-ins at Obama campaign headquarters and at Romney campaign events before the announcement applauded the administration's move, but there are many loopholes. Though he is glad for the order's historic potential, Dream Act lobbyist Cesar Vargas admits it falls short.
"The whole package is a path to citizenship," said Vargas, who helped place protestors at Romney events, and told his own story of undocumented status at a conference held by Illinois Senator Richard Durbin. The policy is definitely not that path. Chang and others ensconced in removal proceedings face a review by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and if they are deemed eligible, the case to deport will pause for two years, but could resume again after that time. Also, a "significant misdemeanor" or other infraction could disrupt their stay. And a new administration might opt to discard the policy all together.
Chang has not been reviewed, and her fate is unclear, since the new move gives prosecutors "discretion" to choose not to deport "dreamers," a clear allusion to the Dream Act, who came to the U.S. before they were 16 and don't have criminal records or other indicators that they'd post a security risk here. But discretion is just that, not a protection guarantee, so Chang remains in legal limbo.
The timing of the new policy may have been politically motivated. It was executed by the executive branch without needing action from Congress and announced by Obama just days before both he and Mitt Romney addressed the annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials It also heads off an expected proposal for legislative action by Florida Republican senator and vice presidential possibility Marco Rubio that was expected to cover similar ground. Still, voters applauded the move. A Bloomberg News poll Tuesday showed potential voters supporting the order outpaced opponents two to one.
But even after being released, Cindy remains embroiled in removal proceedings. She must check in monthly with a branch of the ICE, the wing of Department of Homeland Security that calls itself the "second-largest investigative agency in federal government." Like many young undocumented people, Chang hadn't known her status before entering Arizona. Instead, she had been waiting "for green-card judgment to fall," and says she was beyond alarmed to learn she had never received a 2004 notice demanding she appear in court across the country from her home.
Prasad believes that had she been born in Mexico, she would have been deported there immediately. Travel arrangements to South Korea take far longer to coordinate, which bought her time, he said.
The "prosecutorial discretion" mandated by the president to apply to cases like Chang's had been required and perhaps even deployed to some extent already by ICE, particularly after a memo asking for its deployment by the head of ICE, John Morton, in a memo issued last June (PDF). Expend resources rooting out undocumenteds who were drug dealers and criminals, not Sunday school teachers and other productive society members, so the idea went. An executive order may be stronger than an ICE internal memo, but "some offices will be hostile to the new policy," said Prasad. "They won't want to implement it." And with such a long outstanding deportation order, and a rare stay of removal granted to free her from detention, Chang's case isn't exactly straightforward.
For starters, she's Asian, rather than Mexican or Latin American, two communities that have borne the brunt of immigration battles, and until this year accounted for the bulk of all new arrivals. In her community, undocumented status is stigmatized and hardly discussed many times leading to a lack of education, and in Chang's case, near removal. Chang stressed that her detention was far worse for her monolingual Korean parents than for herself. "I think it had to do with the guilt on their part that they couldn't resolve it, that it had gotten to that point." Asians comprise roughly 1.5 million of the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. according to the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans.
Two decades ago, Cindy relocated to the U.S. with her parents. Her father's parents and siblings were already there, and had found an employer to sponsor him at a turkey processing plant in North Carolina. He applied for a green card there, but changed jobs and moved to California while waiting to hear back on his application. The denial, because he had changed jobs, eventually arrived at his old address and never caught up with him. Similarly, Cindy's 2004 deportation notice was also sent to an address associated with her parents, and never reached her, according to her attorney.
Chang's Congressman Mike Honda, whose office worked to block her deportation, commends the executive order's ability to "allay immediate anxiety that young people have" and to provide the time and challenge for "us to put another bill in front of him."
"I have the audacity of hope that the legislature can come to their senses and do the right thing," says Honda of passing a Dream Act, which would provide the path to citizenship the executive order lacks. Meantime, many Dream Act supporters fear that a new administration may not honor the policy, and that non-threatening undocumented youth may regress on their path to staying in the country they call home.
What could happen to Cindy and others with cases like hers is that ICE will "defer action against the individual for a period of two years" allowing her to stay in the states for at least that long, according to a DHS official. Yet, DHS can "revoke the grant of deferred action," at any time, not inspiring confidence in those working on Chang's behalf.
Right now, she still has a May 2013 court date, after which she could be deported or given 120 days to leave and forbidden from visiting for a decade, according to Prasad. Chang's younger sister, a natural-born U.S. citizen, could petition for her residency, but Prasad believes this would take more than a decade, judging by the fact that visas issued now correlate with sibling petitions filed before January 2001 (PDF). "The number of people applying and petitioning relatives goes up every year, but the number of visas available never does," Prasad said.
He guessed that Chang would be granted the two-year relief, and a temporary work permit "that she can use to get a state ID or driver's license." After the two-year windfall, she and others like her would need to reapply for another two-year period of deferred action, according to the DHS.
When Chang heard about the administration's new policy on National Public Radio, she immediately called her lawyer to find out if she fit the bill, and to get the process moving. DHS has yet to provide them with a timeline, Prasad said. So now, an optimistic Chang waits.
"Now that it's becoming a reality, I haven't quite thought it through," she said of the possibility that she could stay in the U.S., though a degree from a 4-year college has been a longtime dream. "It was more of living day by day. I'm able to see a broader picture now. I'm able to hope for things a bit bigger."


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Although recent declines in nitrate in the Illinois River are promising, increasing nitrate levels at other sites throughout the basin are a continuing cause for concern.
Nitrate levels in the Illinois River decreased by 21 percent between 2000 and 2010, marking the first time substantial, multi-year decreases in nitrate have been observed in the Mississippi River Basin since 1980, according to a new USGS study.
Unfortunately, similar signs of progress were not widespread. "Nitrate levels continue to increase in the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, including the Mississippi's outlet to the Gulf of Mexico," said Lori Sprague, USGS research hydrologist.
"These results show that solving the problem of the dead zone will not be easy or quick. We will need to work together with our federal and state partners to develop strategies to address nitrate concentrations in both groundwater and surface water," said Lori Caramanian, Department of the Interior Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science.
"Expanded research and monitoring is absolutely essential to tracking progress in reducing nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River Basin," said Nancy Stoner, acting Assistant Administrator for Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and co-chair of the Hypoxia Task Force. "The federal agencies and states that are part of the Hypoxia Task Force greatly appreciate this work by USGS and how it advances the science in the Mississippi River Basin."
Excessive nitrate and other nutrients from the Mississippi River strongly influence the extent and severity of the hypoxic zone that forms in the northern Gulf of Mexico every summer. This hypoxic zone, known as the "dead zone," is characterized by extremely low oxygen levels in bottom or near-bottom waters, degraded water quality, and impaired marine life. The 2013 Gulf hypoxic zone encompassed 5,840 square miles, an area the size of Connecticut.
The reasons for increases or declines in annual nitrate levels are unknown. Reliable information on trends in contributing factors, such as fertilizer use, livestock waste, agricultural management practices, and wastewater treatment improvements, is needed to better understand what is causing increases or decreases in nitrate.
Nitrate trends from 1980 to 2010 were determined at eight long-term USGS monitoring sites in the Mississippi River Basin, including four major tributaries (Iowa, Illinois, Ohio and Missouri rivers) and four locations along the Mississippi River using methodology that adjusts for year-to-year variability in streamflow conditions.
Key nitrate concentration trend findings at long-term USGS monitoring sites:
Nitrate increased at low streamflows throughout the basin, except for the Ohio and Illinois Rivers. Groundwater is likely the dominant source of nitrate during low flows. It may take decades for nitrate to move from the land where it was applied, migrate through groundwater, and eventually flow into these rivers. Because of this lag time, it can take several years or decades before the full water-quality effects of either increased groundwater contamination, or of improved management practices, are evident in the rivers.
The USGS report and additional information on nitrate trends in concentration and flux for each of the eight sites are available online. Additional information on USGS long-term monitoring sites in the Mississippi River Basin is also available online (PDF).
Research on nitrate trends is conducted as part of the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program. This program provides an understanding of water-quality conditions, whether conditions are getting better or worse over time, and how natural features and human activities combine to affect water quality. Additional information on the NAWQA program can be found online.


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Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH)
Q79.0, Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a disorder of abnormal diaphragmatic development that leads to herniation of intra-abdominal content into the thoracic space. This results in underdevelopment of the lungs and pulmonary vasculature with complications of pulmonary hypertension and cardiopulmonary dysfunction. Neonates with CDH are managed postnatally in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and undergo surgical repair. Mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are commonly required. After NICU discharge, they are at risk of persistent pulmonary arterial hypertension, failure to thrive, recurrent herniation, scoliosis, neurocognitive delays, and other co-morbidities. The medical home often needs to manage home supplemental oxygen, feeding tubes, and follow-up care coordination with multiple subspecialists.
Prognosis is challenging to predict and depends on size and side of the hernia (right side often worse than left), degree of pulmonary hypoplasia, prematurity, concurrent chromosomal or anatomic anomalies, and other factors. [Hollinger: 2017] Postnatal survival is estimated to be 70-80%. [Hollinger: 2017]
Practice Guidelines
Lally KP, Engle W.
Postdischarge follow-up of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
PubMed abstract
This guideline was reaffirmed by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2011.
Screening prior to NICU discharge:
- Newborn screening
- Hearing screening
- Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening if the infant did not have an echocardiogram while in the NICU
- Car seat testing
Pulmonary dysfunction
Infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia frequently have persistent pulmonary hypertension and chronic lung disease at
time of discharge. [Lally: 2008] Often, they are on supplemental oxygen and cardiorespiratory medications, such as sildenafil, bosentan, diuretics and/or
inhaled corticosteroids with bronchodilators. Cardiology or pulmonology usually manage dose titration. Persistent underlying
lung abnormalities result in ongoing risk for respiratory infections; palivizumab prophylaxis should be considered during
their first 2 years of life. [Resch: 2018]
[American: 2014] Children with CDH are also at risk for mild to moderate obstructive airway disease with a reactive component that may benefit
from bronchodilator therapy. [Trachsel: 2005]
[Muratore: 2001]
Gastroesophageal reflux
The prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is 35-53%; some patients may be asymptomatic despite having reflux
esophagitis. [Arcos-Machancoses: 2018]
[Peetsold: 2010]
[Morandi: 2016] Many infants with CDH are discharged home on anti-reflux medication or may require such medications within the first few
years of life, especially if there is concern that reflux is interfering with adequate nutrition and weight gain. Despite
concern about the risk of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenosquamous carcinoma in adult survivors [Morandi: 2016]
[Steven: 2007], prophylactic fundoplication has not been shown to be of benefit and is not currently recommended. [Maier: 2011] See the Portal's page about Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease for information about treatment.
Feeding difficulties/failure to thrive
Failure to thrive is commonly seen in the CDH pediatric population; 56% of infants are estimated to be less than the 25th
percentile for weight in their first year of life. [Muratore: 2001] Poor linear growth is persistent through at least age 12, with decreases seen in both weight and height. [Leeuwen: 2017] This is thought to be secondary to a combination of increased resting energy expenditure, lower gastrointestinal motility,
gastroesophageal reflux, and oral aversion. [Leeuwen: 2017]
[Haliburton: 2015] Often, neonates with CDH are discharged on increased caloric density formula or human milk; caloric needs will change as
the child grows. Tube feedings (nasogastric or jejunal) may be the primary source of nutrition (managed by a gastroenterologist)
as the infant works to overcome oral aversion with speech therapists. Feeding Tubes & Gastrostomies in Children provides management information.
Neurocognitive delay and behavioral issues
Language and neuromotor development can be delayed and this may persist throughout childhood, especially in those managed
with ECMO. [Danzer: 2011] Neurocognitive outcomes of most children with CDH are in the average range, although the rate of borderline to low intelligence
quotient scores is higher than age-matched children. [Friedman: 2008] Symptoms of emotional reactivity and pervasive developmental issues may be present. [Danzer: 2017] Children with CDH are at increased risk for autism (incidence estimated at 11%) and neurobehavioral issues at 5 years of
age that may benefit from educational support in school. [Hollinger: 2017]
[Lally: 2008]
[Danzer: 2017]
Hearing loss
Late-onset sensorineural hearing loss is reported in approximately 50-60% of CDH survivors, secondary to postnatal interventions
such as ototoxic medications, neuromuscular blockade, or ECMO. [Robertson: 1998] Repeat hearing screen is recommended every 3 months after birth for the 1st year of life, then every 6-12 months until age
See Hearing Loss and Deafness.
Surgical morbidities
Herniation recurrence occurs in about 15% of patients with CDH, with the strongest risk factor being a large defect requiring
patch repair. [Jancelewicz: 2013] Patients may be asymptomatic but present with respiratory distress, hemithoracic bowel sounds, a scaphoid abdomen, and/or
feeding difficulties. The CDH cohort is also at increased risk for small bowel obstruction, scoliosis, and chest wall deformities.
[Jancelewicz: 2013]
[Janssen: 2018] These may occur many years later and often will require consultation with pediatric surgery and/or orthopedic surgery.
Information & Support
For Parents and Patients
Breath of Hope
Detailed information for families in all stages of caring for a child with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Includes booklets
about expecting a child with CDH, bringing your baby home, how to answer your children's questions about a baby in the NICU,
and managing sensory processing and feeding disorders.
Practice Guidelines
Lally KP, Engle W.
Postdischarge follow-up of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
PubMed abstract
This guideline was reaffirmed by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2011.
Patient Education
Patient Education – Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia ( 147 KB)
Answers to questions that families might ask about caring for their child with CDH.
Helpful Articles
Hollinger LE, Harting MT, Lally KP.
Long-term follow-up of congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Semin Pediatr Surg.
PubMed abstract
Morini F, Valfrè L, Bagolan P.
Long-term morbidity of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: A plea for standardization.
Semin Pediatr Surg.
PubMed abstract
Authors & Reviewers
Author: | Michelle Yang, MD |
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Updated guidance for palivizumab prophylaxis among infants and young children at increased risk of hospitalization for respiratory
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PubMed abstract
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A systematic review with meta-analysis of the prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux in congenital diaphragmatic hernia pediatric
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Neurodevelopmental and neurofunctional outcomes in children with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
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PubMed abstract
Haliburton B, Mouzaki M, Chiang M, Scaini V, Marcon M, Moraes TJ, Chiu PP.
Long-term nutritional morbidity for congenital diaphragmatic hernia survivors: Failure to thrive extends well into childhood
and adolescence.
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PubMed abstract
Hollinger LE, Harting MT, Lally KP.
Long-term follow-up of congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Semin Pediatr Surg.
PubMed abstract
Jancelewicz T, Chiang M, Oliveira C, Chiu PP.
Late surgical outcomes among congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) patients: why long-term follow-up with surgeons is recommended.
J Pediatr Surg.
PubMed abstract
Janssen S, Heiwegen K, van Rooij IA, Scharbatke H, Roukema J, de Blaauw I, Botden SM.
Factors related to long-term surgical morbidity in congenital diaphragmatic hernia survivors.
J Pediatr Surg.
PubMed abstract
Lally KP, Engle W.
Postdischarge follow-up of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
PubMed abstract
This guideline was reaffirmed by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2011.
Leeuwen L, Mous DS, van Rosmalen J, Olieman JF, Andriessen L, Gischler SJ, Joosten KFM, Wijnen RMH, Tibboel D, IJsselstijn
H, Spoel M.
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and Growth to 12 Years.
PubMed abstract
Maier S, Zahn K, Wessel LM, Schaible T, Brade J, Reinshagen K.
Preventive antireflux surgery in neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a single-blinded prospective study.
J Pediatr Surg.
PubMed abstract
Morandi A, Macchini F, Zanini A, Pasqua N, Farris G, Canazza L, Gentilino V, Di Cesare A, Leva E.
Endoscopic Surveillance for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: Unexpected Prevalence of Silent Esophagitis.
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Intrepid FrontPageMag reporter Mark Tapson didn't quite find what he was looking for when he infiltrated the Muslim Student Association's annual West Coast conference last month…but, he alleges, that's just more proof of a secret Muslim Brotherhood plot to "radicalize" college students.
Tapson told Janet Mefferd in a radio interview Friday that far from finding anything "radical" or "damning" at the conference, "it was largely very innocuous." He had high hopes for a workshop called "Islamatics," for instance, but found that it was just about Islam and American politics. He even took pains to register for the conference under a "variation" of his name, only to be admitted with no questions asked.
But Tapson has a theory about why the MSA's conference was so "innocuous." It's all part of Muslim Brotherhood plan, he tells Mefferd, to capture "the hearts and minds of the young." This campus organizing and community-building, he says, "radicalizes them and it steers them toward further radicalization down the line."
Tapson: Um, there were some lesser speakers who also got political. There was a workshop called "Islamatics," which I expected to be more interesting than it actually was. It was basically a Washington, DC, Muslim talking about lining up Islamic ideals with the current political parties, 'bridging the gap between their religion and their votes,' as he put it.
Mefferd: Wow.
Tapson: But, you know, it was largely very innocuous. I mean, there was nothing beyond what I've already told you, really. There was very little that you'd consider radical. Highly politicized, yes, but nothing damning.
Mefferd: I think this is very true that, from what you've reported, that there wasn't a lot of radical talk and it was kind of innocuous in a lot of respects, but you point out that for the Muslim Brotherhood front groups that organized this thing, it serves as a very successful recruitment and radicalization tool. Is that really, at root, the reason for the conference, or at least a primary reason for the conference, that other groups, CAIR or ISNA or, you know, whatever it is can have contact with a younger generation?
Tapson: Oh, absolutely. It's all about the younger generation. And, politicizing and organizing that younger generation in campus groups and strengthening their sense of community as Muslims, strengthening their campus activism, that's all, that's a very important goal because it radicalizes them and it steers them toward further radicalization down the line. So, yeah, it's all about capturing the hearts and minds of the young.
Mefferd: Oh, wow.


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**As a ukulele dealer, I sometimes buy B-stock (Blemished Stock) ukuleles in order to pass the savings onto my customers. These blemishes are purely cosmetic, only in the finish, and do not effect the structure or playability of the ukulele.
This one has a few small spots on the front where the finish did not take perfectly, and a light spot in the finish on the back. It is just cosmetic. It will save you some money. I took some close up pictures so make sure it does not bother you before purchasing! It will get the same great set-up and be very playable!**
This is a elevated laminate mahogany from Ohana. It has a different rosette than the -10s with a black binding and a nicer finish. It looks classy and slick! And it has the great Ohana sound. Full, resonate, and punchy for a laminate. Laminates are great choices for a beginner or travel uke. It is more stable in various temperature and humidity conditions. It will be loud, full, and buzz free. I will set it up just as carefully as I set up my higher end ukes so you will get a great playing ukulele that is buzz free with very comfortable action! I put a lot of attention into my beginner ukes because I want you to fall in love with the ukulele and you do not have to spend a lot of money to get a wonderful sounding, great playing, ukulele! That is why I offer Ohana!
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Children seeking counselling after being branded 'terrorists'
It comes Childline, the charity's confidential advice service, reported a spike in sessions concerning racial- and faith-based bullying following the Westminster Bridge terror attack.
Counsellors said they had run more than 2,500 sessions in the last three years on the subject, with under-19s from a range of religious and ethnic backgrounds getting in touch.
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An NSPCC spokesman said: "For children as young as nine to be bullied because of their race or faith is extremely worrying as we know just how damaging bullying can be.
"Children may not realise just what an impact these hurtful words and actions can have, but bullying can lead to mental health problems and even self-harm.
"It's vital that an adult intervenes if they see a child being picked on and nip this behaviour in the bud."
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Bond refunds are mailed within two to four weeks after ordered returned by the Judge after the case has been disposed.
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Refer to your Citation, Court Document or view the court schedule online.If you have been appointment a Public Defender you may call them at 406-751-6080.
If you have a warrant you must appear in front of a Judge. You should report to the Court immediately. If there is a warrant out for your arrest and you have contact with law enforcement, you may be arrested and taken to jail.
You will need to go to Flathead County Justice Court which is located at 920 South Main Street, Kalispell Mt.
No, there are certain charges you must appear for. Most minor traffic tickets are able to be paid for at the window or on-line rather than appearing in front of the Judge.
Kalispell Municipal Court does not have the power to expunge a conviction. The legislature has granted that authority exclusively to District Courts.
If your sentence was deferred at the time it was pronounced AND you have successfully completed all conditions of the sentence, the Court can dismiss the charge and seal your cause number. What that means is that the public does not have access to the details of the conviction and your criminal record will state that the charge has been dismissed.
If you believe you meet both of these conditions, then you should file a Motion to Dismiss with the court.
This request will be denied if the Court finds that you (1) did not complete all conditions of your sentence on time; (2) if you had a new charge during the time the deferred sentence was running or (3) if the time for deferment has not expired.
If you did not receive a deferred sentence and believe your conviction should be taken off your record, you may be best served by consulting an attorney.
The Montana Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) assigns points to convictions for traffic offenses. Municipal Court is required to report all convictions to the DMV. On receipt of notice that an individual has a conviction, the DMV will place points on your record. If you accumulate too many points on your record, you could lose your driving privileges.
Each insurance company has different methods of determining your insurance rates. Many base some rate changes on the points the DMV places on your driving record.
You can check your driver's license status with the DMV to find out how many points you have with the DMV [https://dojmt.gov/driving/driving-records/].
Some of the more common points include:DUI = 10 pointsDriving While Suspended = 6 pointsReckless Driving = 5 pointsNo Insurance = 4 pointsSpeeding = 3 pointsCareless Driving = 2 pointsMoving Violations = 2 points
A ticket can be dismissed at trial, by motion of the City Attorney's Office or by motion supported by legal authority which has been properly served on the City Attorney.
The Court will not dismiss your ticket based on your explanation about what happened without allowing the City Attorney's Office to be heard and present witnesses.
Many people represent themselves and many people do so successfully. Please visit our Self Help section for information on hearings and trials as well as some forms you may find helpful. However, if you are charged with something that may involve a jail sentence, you should consider this option carefully. There can be risks associated with self-representation and you should be aware that some offenses in Municipal Court can have unexpected long term consequences on gun rights or driving privileges. The Court will try to answer any procedural questions you have during the process, but the Court cannot tell you how to proceed nor can it give you any legal advice. You will be expected to conduct yourself appropriately and understand the basic rules of evidence and procedure.
Yes. You must appear when required. Failure to appear will result in a warrant for your arrest. The failure to appear could also affect any future sentence.
The court mails payments as it collects the money from the person ordered to pay restitution. An order of restitution does not guarantee that the court will be able to collect on your behalf.
Surcharges are set by the Legislature or City Council and are used to purchase court technology, police academy training, and the crime victim compensation fund.
Defendants who are represented by attorney should request their counsel file a motion to continue on their behalf.If you represent yourself (Pro Se) you may motion the court in writing to continue a scheduled hearing. Clerks can provide you with a form to complete, and there is one on-line, which should be brought to the City Attorneys so their office can indicate on the motion whether the continuance is opposed by the prosecution or not. Your motion should indicate how much time in weeks you are asking for and why. The motion should be signed and dated by the defendant and filed with the court.
If the citation issued to a defendant does not already indicate that the court must address restitution, victims may contact the City Attorneys (406) 758-7714 to request a Notice of Restitution Request be filed with the court.
Please be prepared to show photo ID at the counter. Defendants under the age of 18 must appear with a parent or guardian.
If the judge ordered a Deferred Imposition of Sentence on a traffic violation you will need to contact the court on/after the deferral period. A clerk will be able to grant the deferral if the balance was paid as ordered and there have been no new violations. Within a few business days the state will remove the points associated with the conviction from your driving record. Deferred criminal charges require the defendant or their attorney to request in writing that the deferral be granted. Certain government agencies will still be able to see record of charges but not the general public. The court is of limited jurisdiction and cannot expunge a record but defendants may petition in a District Court to have the physical and electronic record of a conviction destroyed.


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Clinical trial design for new cancer therapies has historically been focused on the tissue of origin of a tumor, but a paper from researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center published on September 26 in Nature Genetics supports a new approach: one based on the genomic signature of a tumor rather than the tissue of origin in the body.
It is well known that the emergence of cancer is a multi-step process, but because of the efforts of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), funded by the US National Institutes of Health, and other large-scale cancer genomics efforts, for the first time this process can be viewed in exquisite molecular detail, mapping mutations and other molecular events affecting any of the 20,000 genes in a human cell.
Now, two major hypotheses have been confirmed from the genomic analysis of more than 3000 samples from 12 different tumor types: a limited number of specific genetic events appear to cause most tumor subtypes and tumors can be grouped by the oncogenic signatures they contain, no matter what the tissue of origin. That these oncogenic signatures are largely independent of the particular tissue in which the cancer arises indicates that certain drug combinations may be beneficial for select patients with different types of cancer.
"In future clinical trials, we envision that patients with a certain type of endometrial cancer, for example, may be enrolled in the same trial as patients with a subtype of colorectal cancer, and that patient selection for clinical trials can be guided by cancer genomics profiling in the clinic," stated Chris Sander, one of the principal investigators of Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Genome Data Analysis Center. "This work is intended to help in the design of such trials and the development of more-personalized cancer therapies."
The ability to reveal sets of cancer-causing events in molecular detail is based on three major technical and scientific developments in the last decade. New high-throughput genomic technologies and lower operating costs have enabled the collection of genetic data from many thousands of tumors. The experience and knowledge accumulated in cancer genomics in many laboratories has taught us which of the many molecular alterations in cancer are likely to contribute to oncogenesis. Linking data and knowledge, new algorithms and methods for large data analysis in the field of computational biology provide the ability to find the proverbial needles in the haystack: to derive cancer-causing molecular genetic signatures and link them to tumor subtypes and potential therapies on the background of extremely high levels of informational noise.
The Memorial Sloan-Kettering team and their colleagues in TCGA and the International Cancer Genome Consortium plan to expand these comprehensive analyses to tens of thousands of tumor samples. A glimpse of the molecular tumor landscape in more than 13,000 tumor samples is already accessible in the cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics at http://www.cbioportal.org.
Principal authors on the study are Giovanni Ciriello, Nikolaus Schultz, and Chris Sander of the Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
The current research was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute under award number U24 CA143840.
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Haven't blogged for a bit... Been too damn busy getting the new Fecal Face gallery going which, by the way, we have a new show opening on Saturday. Don't worry, we'll be posting lots of information about it later today.
Aaaaaa, the Fecal Face Dot Gallery is up and running.
Night time shot of the little gallery that could.
Had to say good bye bye to our intern Joy as she bought one of those around the world plane tickets and she's ghost... somewhere in New Zealand right now heading west.
Sailing diapers.
Ms. Bozic and Jack cooked us an amazing dinner.
and somehow ended up in a wax museum down at Fisherman's Wharf... It was actually kinda cool.
A little after hours card playin' and wine drinkin'.
Hey there, Jesse and schowlin.
It's fun wearing other people's glasses and having a beard.
The Bay Model in Sausalito gave a talk on the intricacies of the Bay's tides... When you generally rely on the wind for propulsion, it's good to know how to find a current going your way... Max hull speed= 6 knotts... Max flood or ebb can reach speeds of 5 knotts. Heading against that and you could be sailing backwards.
Mr Trolf at The Mountain Goats show during Noise POP.
Ran into Rich and July at Mojo- the bike/ cafe on Divisadero... Such a nice spot. Feels really good in there with a nice attention to detail... Guess they have amazing bagels too.
I like the beer.
Feeding birds from the boat is nice.
Watch some video of some sailing and bird feeding.
You read this story about the sailboat lost just outside the gate on Saturday? Not stoked as we're starting to make our way out the Golden Gate. It can be hairy out there... We were sailing on Saturday for my birthday. Ugh...
That guy
Ran into Paul Urich's mustache at Jay Howell's opening @111 Minna.
And Shane from Hightower and Alan from Art Business.
And that guy again
The Dodos at 12 Galaxies who are now on tour with Thee Ohsees.
Logan of The Dodos and Jordan
Ezee Tiger... He told me that he has a new album coming out... Expect some interview action up on FF sometime soon.
Me & Petey Dammit of Thee Ohsees... That guy can play the guitar something feirce.
Brigid Dawson of Thee Ohsees and Mr Meric Long... Buddies on the road touring as we speak.
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I don't know how or where to start so ill present you with a scenario and hopefully youll tell me how i can do this using java.
i start my java application. the application manages pictures. lets say i change the name of hte picture or even edit the pic itself. then i press upload. a small pop up window appears asking me to enter my login info. i do so and press CONNECT. the application connects me to a server and uploads the picture to it.
thts it.
how do i do this? i already wrote the code that handles the pictures. searching sorting etc. but how do i do the connection part. the server is a new pc that ill b buying next week. ill read on how to turn a pc to a server. but after that im totally clueless.
i saw some sections that i could post this in but i realy am new to this. i wouldnt even no where to post it really.