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Clearly if a, b and c are the lengths of the sides of an equilateral triangle then a^2 + b^2 + c^2 = ab + bc + ca. Is the converse true?
There are 12 identical looking coins, one of which is a fake. The counterfeit coin is of a different weight to the rest. What is the minimum number of weighings needed to locate the fake coin?
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ABCD is a square. P is the midpoint of AB and is joined to C. A line from D perpendicular to PC meets the line at the point Q. Prove AQ = AD.
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Imagine two identical cylindrical pipes meeting at right angles and think about the shape of the space which belongs to both pipes. Early Chinese mathematicians call this shape the mouhefanggai.
Toni Beardon has chosen this article introducing a rich area for practical exploration and discovery in 3D geometry
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Some diagrammatic 'proofs' of algebraic identities and inequalities.
Can you cross each of the seven bridges that join the north and south of the river to the two islands, once and once only, without retracing your steps?
There are four children in a family, two girls, Kate and Sally, and two boys, Tom and Ben. How old are the children?
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Points A, B and C are the centres of three circles, each one of which touches the other two. Prove that the perimeter of the triangle ABC is equal to the diameter of the largest circle.
Prove that the shaded area of the semicircle is equal to the area of the inner circle.
The diagram shows a regular pentagon with sides of unit length. Find all the angles in the diagram. Prove that the quadrilateral shown in red is a rhombus.
Consider the equation 1/a + 1/b + 1/c = 1 where a, b and c are natural numbers and 0 < a < b < c. Prove that there is only one set of values which satisfy this equation.
In this 7-sandwich: 7 1 3 1 6 4 3 5 7 2 4 6 2 5 there are 7 numbers between the 7s, 6 between the 6s etc. The article shows which values of n can make n-sandwiches and which cannot.
Take any rectangle ABCD such that AB > BC. The point P is on AB and Q is on CD. Show that there is exactly one position of P and Q such that APCQ is a rhombus.
A paradox is a statement that seems to be both untrue and true at the same time. This article looks at a few examples and challenges you to investigate them for yourself.
A composite number is one that is neither prime nor 1. Show that 10201 is composite in any base.
This article discusses how every Pythagorean triple (a, b, c) can be illustrated by a square and an L shape within another square. You are invited to find some triples for yourself.
Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie chooses three of them that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?
Take any prime number greater than 3 , square it and subtract one. Working on the building blocks will help you to explain what is special about your results.
The first of two articles on Pythagorean Triples which asks how many right angled triangles can you find with the lengths of each side exactly a whole number measurement. Try it!
This is the second article on right-angled triangles whose edge lengths are whole numbers.
It is impossible to trisect an angle using only ruler and compasses but it can be done using a carpenter's square.
The country Sixtania prints postage stamps with only three values 6 lucres, 10 lucres and 15 lucres (where the currency is in lucres).Which values cannot be made up with combinations of these postage. . . .
Show that if you add 1 to the product of four consecutive numbers the answer is ALWAYS a perfect square.
Learn about the link between logical arguments and electronic circuits. Investigate the logical connectives by making and testing your own circuits and fill in the blanks in truth tables to record. . . .
If you know the sizes of the angles marked with coloured dots in this diagram which angles can you find by calculation?
The first of five articles concentrating on whole number dynamics, ideas of general dynamical systems are introduced and seen in concrete cases.
This article extends the discussions in "Whole number dynamics I". Continuing the proof that, for all starting points, the Happy Number sequence goes into a loop or homes in on a fixed point.
Some puzzles requiring no knowledge of knot theory, just a careful inspection of the patterns. A glimpse of the classification of knots and a little about prime knots, crossing numbers and. . . .
Find the area of the annulus in terms of the length of the chord which is tangent to the inner circle.
An article which gives an account of some properties of magic squares.
The final of five articles which containe the proof of why the sequence introduced in article IV either reaches the fixed point 0 or the sequence enters a repeating cycle of four values.
Start with any whole number N, write N as a multiple of 10 plus a remainder R and produce a new whole number N'. Repeat. What happens?
In this third of five articles we prove that whatever whole number we start with for the Happy Number sequence we will always end up with some set of numbers being repeated over and over again.
Take any whole number between 1 and 999, add the squares of the digits to get a new number. Make some conjectures about what happens in general.
This article looks at knight's moves on a chess board and introduces you to the idea of vectors and vector addition.
Patterns that repeat in a line are strangely interesting. How many types are there and how do you tell one type from another?
Take any two numbers between 0 and 1. Prove that the sum of the numbers is always less than one plus their product?
What fractions can you divide the diagonal of a square into by simple folding?
Can you make sense of these three proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem?
This article stems from research on the teaching of proof and offers guidance on how to move learners from focussing on experimental arguments to mathematical arguments and deductive reasoning.
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The Lady Bisons soccer team fell 4-0 Thursday night at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C., in Atlantic Sun Conference play.
Gardner-Webb scored two goals in each period. Angie Harvey and Lauren Potts scored the first half goals at 23:16 and 29:33.
In the second half Leeanna Woodworth scored both goals at 46:07 and 56:11.
Lipscomb goalkeeper Bethany Copeland made 10 saves. The Lady Bisons recorded only two shots with one by Sara Green and one by Melissa Chambers.
Gardner-Webb had 32 shots, 15 in the first half and 17 in the second.
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The Great Lakes Sea Grant Extension Network honored two Great Lakes coastal issue extension educators, Helen M. Domske of Buffalo, and David B. MacNeill of Oswego, for excellence.
New York Sea Grant Coastal Education Specialist Domske received an Outstanding Outreach Award for public education programming related to the "Dose of Reality" campaign on the proper disposal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products to prevent the release of toxins into the Great Lakes.
Domske authored "Undo the Environmental Chemical Brew: Keep Unwanted Medications & Chemicals Out of the Great Lakes," a publication co-produced by New York, Illinois-Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania Sea Grant programs with funding through the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
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Michigan Tech alumnus Erick Dyke ('91) is remembered as a student who studied everything but his studies for a while. Then he met his future wife, Michelle (Gornowicz), who also graduated from Michigan Tech in 1991. Erick started focusing on school, received his computer science degree and launched a successful video game development company, n-Space.
Erick passed away recently, but his memory lives on through an endowed scholarship fund, and the outpouring of memorial gifts in his honor is such that it has become the largest such fund in the University's history.
Michelle, Erick's parents, and colleagues from n-Space were in Houghton this week, and Michelle talked about how much Michigan Tech meant to Erick.
"We had our first date here, graduated from here and got married a month later," she said. "He was very proud of his degree, and he said he felt that he could do anything. He didn't focus on academics as much because he was so active with WMTU radio and with Sound and Lighting Services, and he was so outgoing."
In 2000, Michigan Tech honored Erick with the Outstanding Young Alumni award.
The first two scholarship recipients, fourth-year students Corey Cousino and Tim Schmalz, were present, too, and they enjoyed hearing many great stories about Erick from his family, colleagues, and faculty mentors.
Schmalz was "inspired by Erick." He's playing football while triple majoring in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering. "I want to learn how everything works," he said, sounding like a younger version of Erick.
Cousino, a computer science major, was "honored by the award." Among other activities, he is doing IT work for the Ford Motor Company at Tech's Lakeshore Center, an appropriate position, since the Dykes are "Ford people," from metro Detroit, including Erick's grandfather, who worked for the company for 44 years.
What Erick did post-Tech is nothing short of amazing.
As a 27-year-old, along with Dan O'Leary, who was then 25, and Sean Purcell, they created n-Space and rattled off a series of hit titles in video gaming: Duke Nukem, Star Wars and Call of Duty, among others. They also succeeded in the softer side of software, creating Rugrats for the then-ignored younger set and, more recently, Hannah Montana.
Some of their projects sold in amazing amounts: Rugrats remains the seventh-best selling PlayStation I title of all time, due in part to one famous fan: Oprah Winfrey. And diversifying their game offerings has also helped them survive while some forty videogame companies have folded in the last year or so, according to n-Space CEO O'Leary.
Erick's dedication to task was omnipresent, said O'Leary. "He was vigilant about the shipping date, and he was as stubborn as an ox."
Erick's work ethic rubbed off on his employees, many of them Tech alumni, as evidenced by the welcome they gave Michigan Tech Vice President for Advancement Shea McGrew when he and President Glenn Mroz visited n-Space in its Orlando, Florida, headquarters.
"They said, 'It's nice to meet you and all that, but we've got to get back to work,'" McGrew recalled.
"You could call our company 'scrappy,'" said O'Leary, who was very close to Erick. "We were like brothers, so we fought once in awhile, too!" O'Leary said Erick was very convincing in everything he did. "If our company is like a family, then he was the father figure who everyone looked up to," he said. "He was n-Space."
n-Space employs 105 people including many Tech alumni. "We are still relatively small," O'Leary said, so that family atmosphere remains.
At the end of the presentation, before the photo shoots, the students were asked some questions by the n-Space brass.
"How do you measure the success of your project?" O'Leary asked, referring to the Huskies Game Development Enterprise team, of which Cousino is president.
"By the quality of the product," answered Cousino. "We have cycles of people we work with, new students every semester, but we need to keep the project moving along from group to group to group and maintain the quality."
His dedication to task sounded familiar.


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Founded in 1921, Alessi is one of Italy's leading manufacturers of home accessories, collaborating with designers and architects to create functional objects that are designed to delight and often challenge preconceived notions of how an object can look. Alessi began as a producer of brass and nickel sheet metal and by the 1950s had repositioned itself as a specialist in manipulating stainless steel. By the 1970s and 1980s, Alessi was collaborating with Ettore Sottsass, Aldo Rossi, Achille Castiglioni, Michael Graves, Phillipe Starck, and Richard Sapper – creating design icons that are still produced today. Today Alessi works with hundreds of artists, industrial designers, and architects to create its core collection – flatware, dinnerware, glassware, cookware, office, clocks, watches, and virtually every type of tabletop or kitchen accessory imaginable. Supplementing its vast core offering, Alessi presents two seasonal collections every year that highlight new designers and typologies. Alessi's designs are included in the permanent collections of museums worldwide. Switch Modern not only shows well over 1,000 Alessi designs on our website, we also have the same commitment to stocking and presentation in our large Alessi-branded store in Atlanta.
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Jasper Morrison (born 1959 in London) studied design at the Royal College of Art and Kingston Polytechnic in London, as well as at HDK in Berlin. After completing two degrees, he opened a design office in London in 1986. That office is still open today, and he has since expanded his presence around the world, opening branches in Paris and Tokyo. Over the last three decades, Jasper Morrison has designed for a number of well-known brands, including Alessi, Cappellini, Flos, Glas Italia, Ideal Standard, Magis, Maruni, Muji, Olivetti, Rowenta, Samsung, and Vitra. He was responsible for the design of the Hannover Tram that was awarded the IF Transportation Design Prize and the Ecology award.


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Parent Regina Dowdell on media distortions about charter schools, and why school choice is a fundamental civil right. Photo: National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
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... I ... I ... intro I'm Mary Kissel ... but about charter schools and the next mayoral candidate of your bill the plot CEO ... seems to be on a campaign to kill them off by Scott parents ... as a child when this charter schools at this in the South Bronx ... to the Dell and joins me now ... Ricci is an Exxon experience the charter schools ... I e do you see this issue has more than just education a child you see this as a separate section absolutely because he even says so there's the tale of two cities ... and ... the people who are in the early portion of those two cities ... they are in neighborhoods where the existing public schools may have a quality education ... people poured in that other working class ... we don't we don't live in neighborhoods where the schools up to par every child in this city deserves a quality education no matter where what neighborhood the apparent can afford to live ... if you think that the media accurately for traces you when you read about charter schools in these are stories like you're still ... not ... aam I think that it's I I honestly can't I don't know why it's they can be very frustrating as a journalist ever come up to charter schools sell products and interviewed parents absolutely not ... they've never gotten a story from appearance understand why it's important to us DUP the administrators of charter schools as negative people but they don't speak to the parents who have children who are directly affected I'll what was your personal experience of the March earlier this week on the Brooklyn think it was the mind falling aam I was the Imperial either with family priceless goals I was on this the ... kind of reading every one of ... the morning it was the lone chilly ... so we had ... new day again in the outward told reminding them that we have had to get everyone involved feel ... it was for NYSE EK it's ... a hands on healing now if you don't look at the house and in social media network it's amazing the things that people contributing ... why are people all over from all over your even people who weren't at the March there was so much support it was amazing still to be there and then to see the coverage after ... it was just amazing is that it let us know we did this for a reason we got on this is because we were her okay well let's hope that build applies here was paying attention and watching listening ... now the decent thing and clean


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Covered by ABC News earlier today, 30-year-old Melissa Walthall of Mesquite, Texas faces a felony retaliation charge after allegedly using her Facebook account to upload a photo of an undercover police officer. According to Mesquite police, Walthall posted the photograph of the narcotics officer on Facebook after he testified against 34-year-old George Pickens during a drug trial that occurred two months prior to the incident. In the caption of the photo, Walthall specifically mentioned that the officer was working undercover and posted "Anyone know this [expletive]?" in the description. It's likely that Walthall was attempting to use social media to figure out the identity of the officer and subsequently spread that information rapidly online.
While Walthall's Facebook profile was set to private, Mesquite police learned of the photo after one of Walthall's Facebook friends spotted the photograph with the revealing caption within their News feed. The unnamed person immediately notified police and supplied the police department with a copy of the photo. After questioning Walthall, police learned that the photo had been supplied by Pickens.
After searching online, Pickens had discovered the photo on Facebook without any tag to identify the undercover officer's personal Facebook account. Opposite from Walthall, his idea for social distribution to reveal the officer's true identity was far less technologically advanced. With the help of his brother Bobby Stedham, Pickens made photocopies of the photo in the style of a lost cat or garage sale flyer. The duo planned to post the photo around local neighborhoods or pass it out on street corners.
When police searched the home where Pickens was residing, they discovered copies of the handout clearly outing the officer as undercover. They also discovered an unregistered sawed-off shotgun underneath the bed where Pickens slept as well as 28.6 grams of methamphetamine and a variety of equipment for drug distribution. For his role in the creation of the flyers, Stedham also faces a felony retaliation charge.
Detailed in the Texas Penal Code, retaliation is defined as "A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly harms or threatens to harm another by an unlawful act in retaliation for or on account of the service or status of another as a public servant, witness, prospective witness, or informant."
However, authorities didn't indicate if Walthall or Stedham will face significant jail time for their role in attempting to reveal the identify of the undercover officer that testified at Pickens' trial.
Regarding the publication of the photo on Walthall's Facebook profile, Texas Municipal Police Association executive director Kevin Lawrence stated "It's a very dangerous situation. If you're trying to infiltrate a cartel, a drug ring, a gang, one of the keys is people have to believe you're not an officer. Anything that hints at tying you to law enforcement is very dangerous." Regarding social media accounts among police officers, Lawrence continued "There are too many opportunities for bad things to happen in exchange for very little up side. But the fact the officer shouldn't have had a Facebook doesn't excuse her either."
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In an ongoing legal battle over confidential patient data, a state judge refused to grant Kaiser Permanente access to the personal computers and email account of a couple the healthcare giant hired to store nearly 300,000 hospital files.
The ruling Thursday by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Harold Hopp marked a victory for Stephan and Liza Dean, who ran a small document-storage firm in Indio called Sure File Filing Systems. The decision came in a lawsuit Kaiser is pursuing against the Deans over their handling of patient information.
Kaiser's actions in this matter have drawn scrutiny from state and federal investigators over potential violations of medical privacy. Last month, the California Department of Public Health found that Kaiser had "failed to safeguard all patients' medical records" at Moreno Valley Community Hospital by giving files to the Deans for about seven months without a contract.
A company spokesman said "in making its ruling the court found that Kaiser Permanente was likely to prevail on the merits of its ultimate claims against the Deans" and it will continue to pursue access to the Deans' computers unless they "can provide absolute and verifiable assurances that they have returned or destroyed all protected information." Kaiser added that it continues to work with state regulators on a plan to address this matter and prevent any similar incident in the future.


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Here's the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of the Fukushima Reactors
TEPCO is continuing to struggle in its efforts to manage highly radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as the situation goes from bad to worse. Earlier this week, the utility announced two leaks in belowground pits, where highly radioactive water used to cool the crippled reactors there was being stored. Approximately 120,000 liters (32,000 gallons) of radioactive water leaked into the ground from tanks #2 and #3. TEPCO continues to insist that none of that water reached the ocean, which sits 800 meters away, but local fishermen, who have already had their lives destroyed by the nuclear disaster, are skeptical. In response, workers were ordered to transfer 9,200 tons of water from tank #2 to tank #1. There are seven pits at the facility—TEPCO calls them tanks—each consisting of a hole dug into the ground and then lined with two layers of polyethylene, and an outer layer of clay. Each layer is separated by felt. Most are the size of several football fields. Two belowground tanks are currently not being used; one other one contains 3,000 tons of less-contaminated water.
On Tuesday, TEPCO admitted that tank #1 was also leaking, meaning that three of the seven tanks were suddenly compromised. Initially, officials planned to move the water from leaking belowground tanks to others that were not leaking. Despite protests from local residents, as well as their own misgivings, officials said there was not enough room in the aboveground tanks to accommodate almost 27,000 tons of water currently being stored in the pits, as well as 400 tons of contaminated water that is produced each day in the process of keeping the reactors cool. Aboveground tanks currently onsite can only accommodate an additional 21,900 tons. Leaks in the reactor buildings mean that groundwater may continue to seep into basements, becoming contaminated and exacerbating the problem, for up to four more years before that problem will be fixed, according to TEPCO officials. Masayuki Ono, TEPCO's General Manager, said, "We cannot deny the fact that our faith in the underwater tanks is being lost." However, he added, "We can't move all the contaminated water to above ground tanks...There isn't enough capacity and we need to use what is available."
However, by midweek, Toshimitsu Motegi, head of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), had forbidden TEPCO from continuing to use the belowground tanks, and criticized the company for its slow response to an increasingly serious situation.
Accordingly, TEPCO said that it will build 38 new aboveground steel tanks, with a combined capacity of 19,000 tons, by the end of May. Transferring the water to the new tanks will take until approximately the end of June, which means highly contaminated water will probably continue to leak into the ground until then. TEPCO has promised to increase the number of radiation monitors in the area. Water from tanks #1 and #2, where leaks are most significant, will be moved to existing tanks on the premises. TEPCO President Naomi Hirose promised that none of the contaminated water would be released into the ocean. "That will never happen," he said. "There is no change in our policy to use all available means to manage the water." Immediately following the onset of the disaster, TEPCO was criticized for releasing vast amounts of low-level radioactive water into the ocean, a move with garnered widespread international criticism.
On Thursday, the utility encountered more difficulties, when 22 liters of highly radioactive water containing 6.3 billion becquerels of radioactivity leaked from a pipe being used to temporarily transfer water from tank #2 to another pit, which officials do not believe is leaking at the moment.
Meanwhile, TEPCO admits that it still has no idea what is causing the leaks in the tanks, and has now begun arguing with Maeda Corp., the construction firm that installed the belowground pits, over who should be blamed for the issue, which is clearly widespread and may affect all seven of the belowground tanks. Maeda Corp. constructed the pits using plans provided by TEPCO, and says that the design was unconventional for a belowground tank. TEPCO insists that the design has successfully been used in the past for farm reservoirs, with no issues. Experts surmise that a leak-detecting pipe inserted between the polyethylene sheets may have caused a gap, and the immense weight of the water then displaced it. However, workers will not be able to determine the exact cause until the tanks are completely drained.
In other news, TEPCO officials announced this week that an underwater fence installed in an ocean port near the plant, which was designed to keep radioactive sea life from further contaminating the food chain, has been damaged in two places during a recent bout of inclement weather.
Nuclear Regulation Authority
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has approved draft regulations that will be required to restart Japan's nuclear reactors, and has opened them up to the public for comment for the next 30 days. Once finalized, they will be enacted beginning in July. Experts say that the rules, many of which require time-consuming and expensive upgrades, may render some reactors not worth restarting, and will result in others not being able to be restarted for years. Although utilities will have a five-year grace period in order to construct off-site control centers, other requirements will be mandated immediately, and restarts will not be allowed until they are completed. The new rules include installation of filtered vents in all boiling water reactors, something that will affect more than half of the country's 50 reactors; installing new ones could reportedly take years. Plants close to the sea will be required to build seawalls in order to reduce damage from tsunamis. Companies hosting reactors on fault lines or near volcanoes will have to submit studies showing that they are not at risk—another process that is both time-consuming and expensive. And, electrical cabling at all plants will be required to be flame retardant. Analysts note that many older plants may have to be completely rewired, at astronomical cost and significant technical difficulty. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, all of Japan's reactors were taken offline. Two, reactors #3 and #4 at the Oi power plant in Fukui Prefecture, were restarted last year, despite widespread public protest, but those will be shut down again in September for routine maintenance. The Oi reactors will then also be required to meet the new NRA standards before being brought online again.
Other Nuclear Politics in Japan
A parliamentary panel, which was formed after the Diet's Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission advised parliamentary monitoring of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster, is being criticized for its strongly pro-nuclear makeup and the fact that it took close to a year to even bring the group together for the first time. In its inaugural meeting on April 8, the Special Committee for Investigation of Nuclear Power Issues met with former members of the Commission, whose report, published in July, said that the disaster was "man-made." Kiyoshi Kurokawa, who led the Commission, criticized how long it had taken the panel to meet for the first time, noting, "I have been given an opportunity [to speak to this newly-formed group] nine months after submitting the report to the Lower House Speaker." Members of the panel apologized. Kurokawa was blunt about current conditions at the plant, saying, "The disaster has not been brought under control."
Analysts have noted that of the 40-person panel, 24 are members of the pro-nuclear Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and several others are declared proponents of nuclear power. One LDP senior official admitted, "We avoided anti-nuclear lawmakers," even snubbing a high-ranking member of their own party who wanted to join the group but who had made anti-nuclear statements. The report urged Parliament to investigate the root causes of the Fukushima disaster, which have never been determined; many suspect that the March 2011 magnitude 9.0 earthquake caused fatal damage to the Fukushima reactors, but TEPCO continues to dispute that, and actively discouraged a group of Diet investigators from doing onsite evaluations by lying about dangerous conditions there, including claiming "pitch black darkness" within a building when, in fact, strong lighting with backup had already been installed. Another LDP member was frank in his assessment of the possibility of investigations into the cause of the meltdowns. "If we conduct an additional onsite investigation, the establishment of the regulations standards will be pushed back from July, delaying the restarts of reactors." Prime Minister Abe and the nuclear industry have both been exerting significant pressure to restart reactors across Japan. Currently, no date has been set for the Parliamentary panel to meet a second time.
For the first time since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began, Japan's central government will reportedly not require residents and businesses to observe power saving targets this summer, a period in which usage normally increases because of hot weather. Officials will make a final decision later this month. Japan is producing more thermonuclear fuel than before the disaster and last summer, residents reduced their overall power usage by as much as 15% in some areas. Sources quoted by the Asahi Shimbun said that the government expects power companies to produce a 6.3% average surplus nationwide, even though 48 of 50 of the country's nuclear reactors are currently offline; as a result, power-saving goals will not be put into place. The predicted surplus notwithstanding, Prime Minister Abe is continuing to push for restarting reactors, despite widespread opposition to nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that it plans to send inspectors to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant next week to investigate process in decommissioning the reactors there, as well as a slew of recent mistakes and equipment failures that have threatened the safety of the plant. Over the past few weeks, there have been two power outages, one of which was caused by a rat running across a wire, and one which occurred when workers failed to disconnect power while trying to install rodent-proof netting; they accidentally touched the wiring, shorting out the system again. A water purification system was shut off when a worker accidentally hit the wrong switch. Radiation detectors malfunctioned. Three separate leaks occurred in belowground holding tanks containing highly contaminated water. And, there have been other, more minor, equipment malfunctions. Some experts say that TEPCO is incapable of managing the disaster, and the task should be given to the government and outside experts. The IAEA team will be led by Juan Carlos Lentijo.
Anti-nuclear campaigners who have been camped out in front of the METI building since September 2011 (six months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster) say that they will fight a lawsuit newly filed by the government in an effort to force them to move their tents. One of the activists highlighted the importance of the demonstration effort, saying, "I'd like to appeal to the public for the importance of the tents. They represent the public's voice for a nuclear-free Japan." Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba, which is still a ghost town after residents were forced to flee in the wake of the Fukushima crisis, agreed: "State-owned land belongs to the public," he said. "We want the government to listen to the voices of the public."
Decontamination and Nuclear Waste
The Environmental Management Bureau, which operates under the auspices of Japan's Environment Ministry, has begun conducting surveys in Naraha for possible temporary storage sites for radioactive soil and other waste. Eight other municipalities are also candidates for the storage facility, but surveys have not yet been done in any of them. Naraha has been named a "zone preparing for the lifting of the evacuation order", and the government plans to allow residents were evacuated to return in the near future. However, many have expressed grave concern about their safety if they return to an area hosting a nuclear waste repository, and said that although the government has promised that the facility will only be a temporary one, they worry that it will become permanent and they will be stuck with it forever.
(Unregistered) Beppe
When you hear Tepco seems unable to install a pump gasket that does not leak, unable to do electric work without disconnecting electricity first you might think they are grossly incompetent.
However when they store highly radioactive water in pits build similarly to those used for common garbage, which are known to leak, incompetence seems an understatement.
On the restarts, I believe the Abe goverment wants to restart the reactors for the same reason the Noda goverment restarted the Oi reactors: they generate profits for their owners. Japan had enough generating power even last summer, as Kansai Electric reportedly shut down several thermal plants after it was allowed to restart the two Oi reactors. This summer is going to be even less of the problem: excess generating capacity is estimated to be above 6%, about double the safety margin typically adopted by utilities (3%).
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"zone preparing for the living of the evacuation order" should probably read "zone preparing for the *lifting* of the evacuation order", 避難指示解除準備区域
12 April, 2013 at 22:42
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Im sure the author meant nuclear fuel in "Japan is producing more thermonuclear fuel than before the disaster and last summer"
since t...
Im sure the author meant nuclear fuel in "Japan is producing more thermonuclear fuel than before the disaster and last summer"
since thermonuclear fuel would be presumably be hydrogen?
Does this statement mean Japan has been processing plutonium to recycle into reactor fuel, or that uranium enrichment has been done to provide reactor fuel?
7 May, 2013 at 19:43
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@Kismet - well spotted - Like the "preparing" Beppe spotted was a bad translation, also this is a bad translation. It seems that Japanese me...
@Kismet - well spotted - Like the "preparing" Beppe spotted was a bad translation, also this is a bad translation. It seems that Japanese media start using Google translate for their English versions?
Meant is here thermal power stations = power stations run by coal, oil and - mainly - gas. This has nothing to do with nuclear fuel.
But it has all to do with Abe's failing climate policy and Japan's energy policy in general. The push for renewables to replace the lost nuclear capacity is far from sufficient - too many barriers still remain in place and unaddressed. The Abe government repeats it's short-sighted vision on a future based on *business* as usual (read: big business as usual) and fails to take into account the lessons from, for instance, Germany, China and the United States that all see a faster growth in renewable energy in their mix than Japan does - whereas Japan has so much potential.
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From: phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2343516Neill wrote:
Let me start off by saying that this post is a GUIDE ONLY - the problem outlined below is not a definitive diagnosis for all elbow pain, it is merely an outline of the most common kiter's arm problem:
I am a Sports Physiotherapist based in QLD, Australia, and have recently suffered from a bit of kiter's elbow whilst I was conveniently on a tropical island holiday with my kite. The biggest thing that struck me about it was how much it can ruin your day, and how intense the pain can be. I have summarised below a few points about this condition, and how it can be treated, in an effort to help anyone else out there who suffers from it.
Kiter's elbow - what is it?
"Kiter's elbow" is a term used by kiters to describe tendonitis of the common extensor origin in the forearm. Essentially, it is clinically indestinguishable from "Lateral Epicondylalgia", which is commonly known as "Tennis Elbow".
There is some variation in the clinical presentation among patients, but the main feature is a pathological change in the structure of the tendinous attachment of the wrist extensor muscles - principally the Extensor Carpi Radialis Brevis, but often extending in to the surrounding musculature - the Extensor Digitorum and the Extensor Carpi Radialis Longus.
Look at the Extensor Musculature here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensor_c ... vis_muscle
Read about "Tennis Elbow" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_elbow
What are the symptoms?
The main symptom is, of course, pain over the lateral aspect of the elbow, but often the patient complains of a dull ache throughout the whole elbow, which cannot be localised well. The pain is aggravated by repetitive gripping or lifting motions, and often extension of the wrist. It may come on slowly over the course of a kiting session, or can be initiated as soon as you do your first run.
The pain is accompanied by a marked loss of grip strength, which is due to neural inhibition of the musculature (your brain tells you to stop gripping things, because it's making the problem worse!). Often the patient will complain that they drop cups of coffee or cannot lift their suitcase.
What causes it?
The cause is only partially understood, but like any tendonitis, it is thought to arise from repeated microtrauma to the muscle/tendon complex which starts a degenerative cascade. The muscle becomes painful, and it then gets weaker because of the pain and disuse. Grip loads which were previously fine begin to irritate the muscle even further, and so on the cycle goes.
There is evidence of morphological change in the structure of the muscle, as well as degeneration of the collagen structure at the attachment site.
In real terms, what this means for us is that we have been gripping the bar too hard, almost always because of heavy bar pressure in the kite. I have also found that wearing gloves when you kite can aggravate the condition, because you will subconsciously grip the bar harder to get the "feel" of the surface feedback to your brain. At the moment, I can kite just fine without gloves, but throw on a pair of Ronstan sailing gloves and the pain kicks in straight away.
Obviously, a stronger forearm will be able to handle higher grip loads without concern, so a bigger and stronger kiter will be able to handle a kite with heavier bar pressure without a worry. If, like me, you are a skinny bloke with rake-thin arms however, you are at a much greater risk of developing the problem!
What can you do about it?
Prevention: Prevention is the best form of cure. Strengthening your extensor musculature by doing regular exercise is a great idea. If you go to the gym regularly, you're probably already doing a whole bunch of exercises which are beefing up your grip strength. Anything involving a barbell or dumbbells and requiring a solid grip is helping. If you're really worried, you can do specific extensor grip strength exercises, which I have shown below.
Cure: This is a notoriously difficult thing to treat. Often you will get it fully better, only to have the problem recur 6 months later. I have outlined the main treatment techniques that I use below, in order of importance:
1) Modify the aggravating factor(s) so that they are no longer in play. For us, this means getting a kite with lighter bar pressure! Often this is all you will need to do in order to get rid of the problem once and for all, but if that is not enough, you need to seek treatment from a Physiotherapist or your local equivalent. I can personally recommend a GK Sonic for anyone with Kiter's Elbow, but most bow kites with a direct rear line attachment and 1:1 bar are usually pretty light on the bar.
2) Disable the active trigger points in the involved muscles. I use dry needling (acupuncture needles) to break up the tender local trigger points in the extensor tendons quite frequently. This appears to be the best method of providing instant relief, apart from perhaps the lateral glide manual techniques, which cannot be done effectively at home. YOU NEED TO HAVE THIS DONE BY A PROFESSIONAL! Don't go sticking needles into your arm at home, you'll only make it worse. Here's a pic of my arm with a needle stuck in it. Yes it hurts, but feels much better afterwards.
Deep tissue massage and accupressure are also helpful, which basically means that you push on the sore muscles as hard as you can bear for about 30 seconds at a time.
3) Manual therapy and electrotherapy are useful in the clinical setting, your Physiotherapist will know more about these. There are a few mobilisation techniques which are brilliant for this problem, and combined with some heavy Ultrasound and Interferential therapy, can be very successful.
4) Therapeutic exercise is the long-term fix for this problem. Essentially you need to strengthen the extensors up so that they handle the loads of kiting without causing a problem. I usually tell my patients to do 4-5 sets of 10 of each of these exercises per day, on the provision that they are not painful, and do not aggravate the pain at all. If anything hurts, it is to be avoided!
a) Wrist extensions. Begin with a 1-3kg weight, with your palm facing towards the floor. Extend the wrist (lift the weight up using your wrist) and SLOWLY drop it down again. The key is to do the eccentric part of the exercise slowly, as that is where the most muscle strength is gained.
b) Radial Deviation exercises. Use the same weight, just turn your wrist 90 degrees so that your thumb is facing towards the ceiling.
The best thing you can do is to seek treatment as soon as you notice any pain. If the condition goes chronic (>3 months duration) it is MUCH harder to treat. In the extreme cases, you can have a corticosteroid injection (which almost never helps, and can often make it worse) or a surgical release of the tendons. I would recommend neither of these things. Go see your local Physio or equivalent and beat it before it becomes a serious problem!
Feel free to ask me specific questions in this thread, I'll do my best to answer. Mods might want to make this a sticky too?


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PHILADELPHIA—Mick Cronin had to admit that the obvious reason his Cincinnati team is going home from the NCAA Tournament isn't the only reason.
"The foul line beat us at the end of the day," the Bearcats coach said, later adding, "Four-for-nine from the foul line killed us."
Just not as much as Doug McDermott killed them. McDermott does that a lot. He and Creighton now are in position to try to do it to No. 2 seeded Duke in Sunday's Midwest Regional Round of 32 meeting at the Wells Fargo Center. Creighton is there because of McDermott, the All-American forward who played like one Friday, leading the Blue Jays to a nerve-wracking 67-63 win.
"We play in the Big East, so we see real good players all the time," Cronin said. "He can play anywhere for anybody. I thought he was the difference.''
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With 14 points in the first half -- including Creighton's last eight before the break, and with four huge free throws in the final two minutes while Cincinnati scrapped and hustled their way back into it -- McDermott was the deciding factor. He led all scorers with 27 points, including two 3-pointers, and added 11 rebounds.
Then again, the star for Creighton very nearly was their downfall. He went through a brutal scoring drought as the Bearcats swarmed him relentlessly in the final eight minutes (his last field goal came with 8:39 to go and gave the Blue Jays their biggest lead at 52-44).
And he handed Cincinnati a huge opportunity with 53.1 seconds left and Creighton up only 60-54—he swung a reckless elbow near Shaquille Thomas' head when trapped on an inbounds pass and was called for a flagrant-1 foul. Two free throws and the ball for Cincinnati.
— PHOTO GALLERY: Highlights from the Round of 64
"It's just natural," McDermott said. "I mean, I maybe was a little too high with the ball. Just probably a call you've got to make in that situation. I was being aggressive, and they got me there."
It was destined to change momentum for good. It did, for Creighton. Thomas missed both free throws. Even when Sean Kilpatrick (17 of his 19 points in the second half) drained a 3 on the next possession to cut the lead in half, the effect was greatly lessened.
"If he makes them both, it's a whole different ball game," Cronin said.
It was no accident that Creighton then put away Cincinnati at the line. Including McDermott's four, the Blue Jays hit eight in a row in the final 1:42 and 9-of-10 overall. That almost wasn't enough, as Kilpatrick's game-tying 3-point attempt with six seconds left spun in and out.
Kilpatrick also had a critical miss from the line, unable to complete a three-point play with 40.2 seconds left that could have cut the deficit to two points.
McDermott hardly worked solo. Center Gregory Echenique, once a Big East foe of Cincinnati at Rutgers before transferring, finished with 13 points, seven rebounds and physical play at both ends. Ethan Wragge hit four 3-pointers. But McDermott was the center of attention.
"If you have a 6-8 guy who can really do almost everything—like he can make 3s, he can take you off the block and everything—it's kind of tough,'' Kilpatrick said. "We're not used to, like, 6-8 guys, especially in our league, doing things like that.''
The swarms of Cincinnati defenders still gave it a valiant effort. They ganged up on McDermott at every opportunity in the final eight minutes. On consecutive possessions, Thomas blocked his shot from his favorite spot on the left baseline, they forced a bad McDermott pass into the post and they got another block down low from Titus Rubles.
That all helped Cincinnati close in on Creighton in the final minutes. Had Cincinnati been as proficient at the line as its opponent, the two teams still might be playing.
Instead, Cincinnati must wait until next season, when it plays in the first season of what used to be the original Big East. Creighton moves from the Missouri Valley to the "new" Big East. Possibly without McDermott, too, depending on whether he takes the leap to the NBA. None of that happens for at least one more game, though.
"Since last season, we wanted to get back to this game, like we've all been saying,'' McDermott said of playing for a Sweet 16 berth. "It definitely plays a big factor, just because I want to go as far as we possibly can.''


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Cher necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 80 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
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I'm a latent feminist that can't sit on my hands any more. We live in a world, for better or worse, that gives the power to those who have the money. Currently that is predominantly men. Nature has dedicated the characteristics of fight and conquer as masculine, and the qualities of nurture and compassion to that of the femine. If we are to save this planet be must redistribute the power/money.
Women - those trying to save money, make money, or understand it. I want this site to one of the growing number of sites that are now becoming available to women worldwide that enables us to network and unite. This site will be a place to share knowledge and resources. There are no boundaries, the demographic is enclusive.
The logo can be reduced to the intials - FSW- I have imagined the F & the W as bold and simple, with the S being elongated (almost hand drawn like the center of the Yin and Yang symbol, a bit like Ekhart Tolle has used but upright) and perhaps placed in a circle - representing a coin. Or perhaps like a dollar sign.
This site will not only discuss the practicallities of finance, but also philosophies on the subject.
Colour will be very important - I am currently imagineing red, gold and black.
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Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2012
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The Westminster College Department of English and Public Relations will feature three scholars discussing author Elizabeth Bishop at the Bleasby Colloquium Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. in the McKelvey Campus Center's Mueller Theater. The program is free to the public.
Bethany Hicok, associate professor of English at Westminster; Thomas Travisano, professor of English at Hartwick College; and Angus Cleghorn, professor of English at Seneca College will discuss the book they co-edited: Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st Century: Reading the New Editions. The three Bishop scholars also contributed essays to the book.
Bishop was a world traveler and a Pulitzer prize-winning poet, who lived almost two decades in Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s. In recent years, a series of major collections of Bishop's posthumous writings have been published, profoundly affecting how we look at her life and work. The hundreds of letters, poems and other writings in the new editions have expanded Bishop's published work by well over a thousand pages and placed before the public a "new" Bishop whose complexity was previously familiar to only a small circle of scholars and devoted readers. Hicok, Travisano and Cleghorn will discuss this "new" Bishop in their presentation. Books will be available for purchase.
Hicok, who joined the Westminster faculty in 2001, earned an undergraduate degree from Russell Sage College and two master's degrees and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. She is the author of Degrees of Freedom: American Women Poets and the Women's College, 1905-1955. In addition to articles on Bishop, she has published articles on Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens, contributed chapters to three books and delivered papers on American poetry at professional conferences. She is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to study in Brazil and is working on a book on Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil.
Cleghorn is the author of Wallace Stevens' Poetics: The Neglected Rhetoric and editor of the Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin. Travisano is the author of one of the first book-length studies on Bishop, Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development. Most recently he is the principal editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. He is working on a biography of Bishop.
This colloquium is part of the George Bleasby Colloquia, a series of literary events in honor of the late Dr. Bleasby, who chaired the Department of English at Westminster from 1954-75. These programs are presentations by the faculty of the department, featured speakers, and majors on individual scholarship, interests and creative projects.
Contact Dr. Brittany Rowe-Cernevicius, Westminster assistant professor of public relations and coordinator of the colloquium, at (724) 946-6024 or email for additional information.


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Here's your mash-up of pet- and animal-related headlines for Thursday.
Dog owner fends off raccoon with Samurai sword
A man in Northern California used a Samurai sword to defend his dog from an attack by what appears to have been a large raccoon.
Dog gets mugged while owner buys milk
While some prefer to steal candy from babies, others – specifically in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn – have opted to steal coats from small dogs.
Vets, pet owners out of the loop on recall of anesthetic drug
How safe are the injectable anesthetic drugs that your veterinarian administers to your pets?
The Larimer Humane Society in Colorado received 106 small mammals and reptiles Wednesday as a result of the seizure in December of 27,000 animals from an international pet wholesaler in Texas.
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Researchers in the UK have discovered a new process that could create inexpensive, mass-produced solar devices by printing a thin layer of plastic polymer photovoltaic cells over a cling-like film. The technique results in an efficient structure for generating solar energy without much effort – traditional silicon solar cells rely upon the creation of intricate nano-structures that require lots of time and money to develop.
"Our results give important insights into how ultra-cheap solar energy panels for domestic and industrial use can be manufactured on a large scale. Rather than using complex and expensive fabrication methods to create a specific semiconductor nanostructure, high volume printing could be used to produce nano-scale (60 nano-meters) films of solar cells that are over a thousand times thinner than the width of a human hair," said Dr Andrew Parnell of the University of Sheffield, one of the researchers involved in the study. "These films could then be used to make cost-effective, light and easily transportable plastic solar cell devices such as solar panels."
The research was conducted by a group of scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge using the ISIS Neutron Source and Diamond Light Source at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. In order to ensure that the solar cells were arranged efficiently, the researchers used a super-bright X-ray combined with neutron beams to probe the solar cells without causing them damage. The researchers believe with further research they'll be able to use this technology to place the solar cells into increasingly more efficient arrangements. "In a couple of hours enough energy from sunlight falls on the Earth to satisfy the energy needs of the Earth for a whole year, but we need to be able to harness this on a much bigger scale than we can do now. Cheap and efficient polymer solar cells that can cover huge areas could help move us into a new age of renewable energy," noted Professor Richard Jones of the University of Sheffield.


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Being a pet owner is never easy. While pets bring us joy and companionship on a daily basis, they also require training, veterinary care, time, love, attention, and even tolerance. Tolerance is especially necessary when a pet owner is allergic to his or her companion animal.
Studies show that approximately 15% of the population is allergic to dogs or cats. An estimated one-third of Americans who are allergic to cats (about two million people) live with at least one cat in their household anyway. In a study of 341 adults who were allergic to cats or dogs and had been advised by their physicians to give up their pets, only one out of five did. What's more, 122 of them obtained another pet after a previous one had died. It's clear the benefits of pet companionship outweigh the drawbacks of pet allergies for many owners. Living comfortably with a companion animal despite being allergic to him requires a good understanding of the allergic condition and an adherence to a few rules.
All cats and dogs are allergenic (allergy-causing) to people who are allergic to animals. Cats tend to be more allergenic than dogs for allergic people, although some people are more sensitive to dogs than cats. Contrary to popular belief, there are no "non-allergenic" breeds of dogs or cats; even hairless breeds may be highly allergenic.
Dogs with soft, constantly-growing hair—the Poodle or the Bichon Frise, for example—may be less irritating to some individuals, although this may be because they are bathed and groomed more frequently. One dog or cat of a particular breed may be more irritating to an individual allergy sufferer than another animal of that same breed.
The source of irritation to pet-allergic humans? Glands in the animal's skin secrete tiny allergy-triggering proteins, called allergens, that linger in the animal's fur but also float easily in the air. Allergens are present in the animal's saliva and urine, too, and may become airborne when saliva dries on the fur. The severity of reaction to these allergens varies from one person to the next, ranging from mild sniffling and sneezing to life-threatening asthma, and can be complicated by simultaneous allergies to other irritants in the environment.
If your or a family member's allergies are simply miserable, but not life-threatening, take these steps to reduce the symptoms:
Of course, if you do not currently have a pet and are considering one, and know you are pet-allergic, be sure to consider carefully whether you can live with the allergy before you bring a new pet home. Except in the case of children, who sometimes outgrow allergies, few allergy sufferers become accustomed to pets to whom they are allergic. Too many allergic owners obtain pets without thinking through the difficulties of living with them. And too often, they end up relinquishing pets, a decision that is difficult for the owner and can be life-threatening for the pet.
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Cavernous Malformations
Cavernous Malformations
A cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) is a collection of small blood vessels (capillaries) in the central nervous system that is enlarged and irregular in structure. In CCM, the walls of the capillaries are thinner than normal, less elastic, and are likely to leak. Cavernous malformations can happen anywhere in the body. They most commonly produce symptoms when they are found in the brain and spinal cord.
These clusters of blood vessels (lesions) can be less than 1/4 inch to 4 inches in size.
Common symptoms include headaches or seizures. Experiencing symptoms depends on where the lesions grow and how many of the lesions are present.
Most of the time, these formations cause no problems. Many people never know that they have one. In some people, however, the lesions can burst and bleed into the brain, causing neurologic problems, including stroke and, in rare instances, death.
Facts about cavernous malformations
About 1 in 100 to 200 people have cavernous malformations. The malformations probably form before or shortly after birth. Some may seem to appear and disappear over time on follow-up MRI scans.
About 25% of people with cavernous malformations in the brain never have symptoms.
In some instances, the condition is caused by mutations in particular genes. These familial cavernous malformations are inherited from a parent. In other cases, the malformations appear without a family history.
Symptoms of cavernous malformations depend on the location and size of the malformation. Although children sometimes have symptoms, most people who have symptoms are between 20 and 50 years old.
These are physical symptoms:
Changes in hearing or vision
Difficulty thinking clearly or with remembering things
Complications of cavernous malformations include:
Hemorrhage (stroke)
When to call the healthcare provider
Many people only find out about a cavernous malformation when it bleeds. This causes stroke in some people. If you notice symptoms, such as seizure, severe headache, numbness, vomiting associated with headache, or physical weakness, go immediately to the emergency room or call 911 to get help.
Healthcare providers typically take a medical history and do a physical exam. The final diagnosis is usually made based on imaging tests that show areas of blood flow. These tests could include:
MRI scan
CT scan
Blood tests
Gene testing is available in some clinics
A treatment plan could include:
Medicine for symptoms, such as antiepileptic medicines for seizures
Surgery to remove the blood vessels
Performing an MRI at regular intervals to keep an eye on a lesion
Currently, cavernous malformations can't be prevented. Researchers hope that by learning more about the genes linked to these growths, prevention could become possible. Prenatal genetic testing and counseling are choices for the first person in a family with multiple cavernous malformations or for relatives of those with identified familial cavernous malformations.
March 22, 2017
Reviewed By:
Adler, Liora C., MD,Bass, Pat F. III, MD, MPH


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Release date:August 24, 2006
Support service leaves Senior with good summer memories
PLAINVIEW – The phrase "summer missions" typically conjures images of students sharing the gospel in foreign countries or doing manual labor in inner-city areas, with evangelism the prevalent concern. Jerod Clopton knows first-hand, though, that missions takes on very different shapes and each experience has the power to change lives.
Clopton, a senior math major at Wayland Baptist University and a native of O'Donnell, spent his summer on a farm near Meridian, Texas, working for an agency called Greater Good Global Support Services, or G3S2, as an agent of Go Now Missions, an arm of the Student Ministries office of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
A nonprofit organization started by the Matt Wallace family, the agency provides technical and logistical support for non-governmental organizations working in foreign areas. Typically, that involves missionaries affiliated with numerous missions-sending agencies and organizations doing humanitarian aid and disaster relief.
"They are about helping people who are living their faith in a cross-cultural environment to be able to serve better," Clopton said. Though missionaries serving with large organizations like the International Mission Board have the support of such agencies, when problems arise in the field it can be difficult to work their way through the proper channels to find solutions. On the flip side, those self-funded missionaries serving independent of an agency have no support service should problems arise.
As one of seven volunteers serving alongside the Wallaces at G3S2, Clopton said the challenges that came their way took numerous forms and demanded a variety of skills. But the team was taught to approach every situation with three focal points in mind: creativity, responsiveness and empathy.
"Sometimes you have to be creative in your approach to solving certain problems simply because of the situation, and of course, we had to be there to answer the phones or emails and respond immediately just to let people know we were working on their case," Clopton said. "It is kind of hard to be empathetic when you are not in a foreign country but you have to put your feet in their shoes and imagine what they're going through."
Clopton said he signed up for the assignment because it involved the use of technology and, as a student worker in the WBU Informational Technology department, he felt qualified for the task. The actual experience involved not just technology skills but lots of patience, perseverance and thinking on their feet.
Several requests came for help with international travel issues such as missed flights and missing passports. One case, involving a young man who lost his passport in an airport in Spain, took the team three straight days of phone calls, research and networking before God finally provided an embassy contact who saved the day.
Clopton said other calls involved research for missionaries on unreached people groups and any work currently being done, making connections to workers in the field.
"We basically take the time and energy to solve their problem so they can focus on ministering to people," he said. "We're really ministering to those helping others, basically."
Aside from attending to requests for help from those serving all over the world, Clopton said the summer missions team helped with research for a DVD project called "Ethne to Ethne," translated "people to people" and focusing on initiating prayer for unreached people groups. Each intern did research on an assigned people group, gathered video and photos of the group and had the script translated into 17 languages and recorded in six audio languages.
Though not the traditional missions experience, Clopton said the summer was powerful for him.
"It's a different experience because you're not witnessing to people, cleaning up trash from the streets or building houses," he said, "But you're there to support the people who are doing those things and making their lives easier.
"You're really being a servant, and that's what Jesus came to do."
Clopton said getting to visit with missionaries all over the globe made quite an impact on him and gave him a real sense of the gospel spreading.
"You really get to see how God is working all over the world," he said. "We have tunnel vision sometimes in America and in the Bible Belt, and we think that America sends out all these missionaries, but here were many foreign missionaries working all over in closed-off countries."
Clopton said the greatest impact from the summer was a heightened desire to spend time abroad himself and experience living in a cross-cultural environment, and learning to be intentional in his walk with God in all aspects of life.
"We get it fed to us here in little pieces, but we need to be intentional about pursuing it ourselves and getting closer to God," he said. "We just have to be intentional about living out our faith and our work ethic every day of our lives."


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Carlos Andres Gomez, an award-winning poet and actor from New York City, will discuss his work and perform at 8 p.m., Thursday, in Ball Theater. His appearance is being sponsored by Unidos Por Sangre.
He will be performing portions of his one-man play "Man Up." He will also discuss latino masculinity and masculinity in general. Read about his most recent work on his MySpace page.
Gomez has been described as "raw and intense ... a rebel Don Juan with a sensitive edge" by Underrated Magazine (U.S.) and was called "a must-see" and given five stars (out of five) by Hairline Magazine (U.K.).
He is a former social worker and public school teacher, has performed at over 100 colleges and universities and toured across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. He is the 2006 Toronto International Poetry Slam Champion and a two-time National Poetry Slam Finalist, as a member of the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café's Slam Team that finished 2nd and with the NYC/louderARTS Slam Team that finished 3rd in the U.S.
He might be most recognized as a co-star in Spike Lee's number-one box office smash hit film that was selected as one of AFI's 10 Most Outstanding Motion Pictures of 2006, "Inside Man" (Universal Pictures), with a lead role alongside Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen. Most recently, he appears on the sixth season of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry."
Gomez won a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award for his starring role in the groundbreaking "Respect Yourself" television spots, for which he was also a writer, and appears on the third season of the popular Showtime series "The L Word."
His first full-length CD, "Carlos Andrés Gómez: Live from New York," was unanimously chosen as the winner of the 2006 L.A. Music Award for Spoken Word Album of the Year. He has been showcased on the mun2 show "Vivo," appeared on Telemundo's "Así Está El Mundo," been a spotlight on MyNetworkTV/Sí TV's "LatiNation," and was just profiled in his own episode of "Hollywood Life," an online show out of Japan -- all coming on the heels of him gracing the cover of the February 2007 issue of Brass Magazine. A much sought-after performer in the international spotlight, he was one of the headline acts on the MTV-U sponsored Fight Apathy National Tour and did a month-long run of his critically acclaimed one-man play, "Man Up," at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.
He is the founder of The Excelano Project at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the nation's premier spoken word/performance poetry collectives that took the National Championship Title at the 2007 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational just three years after sending its first team of rookies, coached by Gómez, that finished 4th in the nation.
Over the past 7 years, he has shared the stage with a diverse range of well-known musical/performance acts and literary icons, including Wyclef Jean, Amiri Baraka, MC Lyte, Martín Espada, Toots and The Maytals, Immortal Technique, Reel Big Fish, Donnell Rawlings, Pete Rock, Saul Williams, and Mos Def. He splits his time between New York City and Los Angeles.