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She sat down and turned the shell over, and picking up her scraping tool, her sister began to tell of Aunt Vyla's latest antics and she began to scrape the line left by the shell mold. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Every so often she'd pause, put the tool down, take her small sponge and dip it into the water bowl that she shared with her sister Anne, wring it to near dryness, and gently rub it along the area she had just scraped smoothing the line away. Making sure with her finger the line would never be seen again. She kept alternating between the monotonous tasks of scraping and smoothing.
As she was wringing the sponge once again, Anne said something about Aunt Vyla that grabbed her attention away from her task. And she wasn't careful to wring the sponge completely. She swiped the base where the mold line had been. Her recognition of what she'd done was too late. "God bless America and all the ships at sea," she muttered under her breath. "What?" Anne inquired. "Oh nothing," she replied. "Go on. What did Aunt Vyla do? This time?" Really, it was something. Now the shell's base would be lopsided. The extra water on the sponge had made the fragile greenware bend. Just a little. But just enough. She sighed. Then she went on to scrape once more.
Having finally smoothed the mold line away, there was only one thing to do before the piece was fired in the kiln. To etch her initials on the bottom of the shell. Using her scraping tool, she first scratched an "A". "Not too bad," she thought. Almost whimsy with the swirls on the bottom of the letter. Almost. Next she scratched a "B" into the soft clay. Hm. A wee crooked. Which just about summed up her relationship with the man who stayed around long enough to share his name with her, to father their 8 children, and to leave once the going got tough. Then she smiled. O.K., maybe it was a smirk. God forgive her. At least she didn't snort. This time. Ladies don't snort. Well, not in public at least. Or so her mother had told her.
The next week, her shell was waiting for her at her place at the crafts table. Scandalously naked. Waiting for her to clothe it in color. She'd thought about what colors to use all week. She'd finally decided on pink and maybe a little turquoise for accent. As she sat down, she gingerly placed a finger on the rim on the back left-hand side of the shell. She pressed down and then released it. Clunk. Yup. Lopsided. She sighed. As she picked up her brush and dipped it into the pink paint, her sister Anne asked her, "Did you hear what Aunt Vyla did yesterday?" And as her sister talked about Aunt Vyla, she painted the shell. Pink. Actually it was starting to look shockingly pink. She covered the whole shell in shocking pink paint. Then sat there waiting for it to dry. Once dry, she rinsed her brush clean and dipped it in the turquoise paint, and began to paint along the rim of the shell providing some depth and a very necessary break from the shocking pink.
When she entered the room the following week, she instantly saw her shell. Her very pink shell. It was hard to miss. She sat down, dipped her brush into the milky glaze, and began to apply the glaze all over the shell. As her sister began to retell a story about the neighbors, she wondered, "What? No stories about Aunt Vyla?"
Three layers of glaze and five stories ~two including Aunt Vyla~ later, she was finally done. She sat back. And smiled in approval. She liked it. She liked its whole shocking pink and lopsided self. Next week, she'd come pick it up after its last firing.
Then Anne interrupted her thoughts, "What are you going to do with another ashtray, Alice? You don't even smoke. And its lopsided to boot."
Alice sighed and rolled her eyes heavenward. Sisters. She finally replied, "'To each his own,' said the old lady as she kissed the cow, and the old man who peed in the sea to keep the boat from sinking."
Then she snorted.
Note: I have no idea what the story is behind this ceramic piece. I just know that my Gran, Mary Alice (Truitt) Blacketer, made it, and that she did so after she was married. I took creative license, but the names are real. Also there were always stories about Aunt Vyla. Always. Further, one of my older sisters taught a ceramics class that I attended when I was younger, so I do know a little something about ceramics. I did witness on occasion my Gran snorting [and quite unlady-like at that]. Yes, she did use the old-lady-cow-old-man-boat saying. [You didn't think I made that up, did you? Even I'm not that creative.] And yeah, my grandfather was a jerk. It seems I've got a lot of those. [Snort.] Anywho, here it is, and I use it to hold my paper clips in my office. It matches absolutely nothing. It's worth nothing to most. And it means the world to me.
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Kidney cancer is the eighth most common cancer in men and the tenth in women. The most common type of kidney cancer is renal cell carcinoma that forms in the lining of the renal tubules in the kidney that filter the blood and produce urine. Approximately 85 percent of kidney tumors are renal cell carcinomas. When kidney cancer spreads outside the organ, it can often be found in nearby lymph nodes, lungs, bones or liver, as well as the other kidney.
The current gold standard treatment is laparoscopic partial nephrectomy surgery. However, some patients could benefit from minimally invasive, kidney-sparing treatment, such as those with high surgical risk, underlying illnesses, multiple recurrent tumors, borderline kidney function or only one kidney.
Additionally given the recent success of percutaneous cryoablation, patients with kidney cancer may elect to avoid surgery and have their tumor treated this way. The urologist and interventional radiologist work together in a multidisciplinary team to determine whether a less invasive percutaneous ablation can be done safely and effectively.
Prevalence and Risk Factors
More than 32,000 Americans each year are diagnosed with kidney cancer-many of them don't have symptoms. Typically, those with kidney cancer are past the age of 40 and twice as often are men.
Other risk factors include:
- Smoking
- Obesity
- High blood pressure
- Long-term dialysis
- Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
The incidence of kidney cancer is on the rise. Fortunately, the availability of modern imaging technology has led to more frequent detection of small, asymptomatic tumors that otherwise would be undetected. Often, small tumors do not cause symptoms and are discovered on CTs, MRIs or ultrasounds that are performed for some other reason, such as standard imaging studies (CT or ultrasound) performed during many emergency room visits. These small tumors are often the best candidates for nonsurgical treatment options. Common symptoms may include:
- Blood in the urine
- Side pain that does not go away
- A lump or mass in the side of the abdomen
- Weight loss
- Fever
- Feeling very tired
Kidney Cancer Diagnosis
In addition to a basic physical exam, urine test and blood tests, several other techniques can be used to diagnose kidney cancer. CT scan, MRI or ultrasound can be performed to see inside the body and identify a tumor. An image-guided needle biopsy can be done to remove tissue samples and look for cancer cells. At the time of diagnosis, 25 to 30 percent of patients have metastases.
In a biopsy, a sample of tissue from the tumor or other abnormality is obtained and examined by a pathologist. By examining the biopsy sample, pathologists and other experts also can determine what kind of cancer is present and whether it is likely to be fast or slow growing. This information is important in deciding the best type of treatment. Open surgery is sometimes performed to obtain a tissue sample for biopsy. But in most cases, tissue samples can be obtained without open surgery with interventional radiology techniques.
Needle biopsy
Needle biopsy, also called image-guided biopsy, is usually performed using a moving X-ray technique (fluoroscopy) computed tomography (CT), ultrasound or magnetic resonance (MR) to guide the procedure. In many cases, needle biopsies are performed with the aid of equipment that creates a computer-generated image and allows radiologists to see an area inside the body from various angles. This stereotactic equipment helps them pinpoint the exact location of the abnormal tissue.
Needle biopsy is typically an outpatient procedure with very infrequent complications; less than 1 percent of patients develop bleeding or infection. In about 90 percent of patients, needle biopsy provides enough tissue for the pathologist to determine the cause of the abnormality.
Advantages of needle biopsy include:
- With image guidance, the abnormality can be biopsied while important nearby structures such as blood vessels and vital organs can be seen and avoided.
- The patient is spared the pain, scarring and complications associated with open surgery.
- Recovery times are usually shorter and patients can more quickly resume normal activities.
Large core needle biopsy. In this technique, a special needle is used that enables the radiologist to obtain a larger biopsy sample. This technique is often used to obtain tissue samples from lumps or other abnormalities in the breast that are detected by physical examination or on mammograms or other imaging scans. Because approximately 80 percent of all breast abnormalities turn out not to be cancer, this technique is often preferred by women and their physicians because it:
- is less painful and requires less recovery time than open surgical biopsy
- avoids the scarring and disfigurement that may result from open surgery
A similar technique called fine needle aspiration can be used to withdraw cells from a suspected cancer. It also can diagnose fluids that have collected in the body. Sometimes, these fluid collections also may be drained through a catheter, such as when pockets of infection are diagnosed.
Many interventional radiology procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer can be performed on an outpatient basis or during a short hospital stay. In many cases, the procedures:
- offer new cancer treatment options
- are less painful and debilitating for patients
- result in quicker recoveries
- have fewer side effects and complications.
Kidney Cancer Treatments
As vascular experts, interventional radiologists are uniquely skilled in using the vascular system to deliver targeted treatments via catheter throughout the body. In treating cancer patients, interventional radiologists can attack the cancer tumor from inside the body without medicating or affecting other parts of the body. For breast cancer, interventional radiologists use thermal ablation, as well as some laser therapy, to kill the cancer cells. Although the devices used are FDA approved, research to evaluate the long-term effects of these treatments is still ongoing.
Recent interventional cryoablation data are showing near 100 percent efficacy for tumors up to four centimeters if localized to the kidney. Larger localized tumors can also be successfully treated with cryoablation depending on size and location. Ablated lesions show as dead tissue (scar) with no recurrences at one-year follow-up on imaging, after one treatment. The one-year benchmark is an established and well-accepted benchmark within the medical community.
Studies are ongoing to compare cryoablation to partial nephrectomy, and it is expected that the two treatments will be shown to be equivalent in the future. The interventional radiology treatment is less invasive and easier on the patient. This treatment spares the majority of the healthy kidney tissue and can be repeated if needed.
The treatment has an excellent safety profile, and most patients are sent home the same day as the procedure or go home the next day. The most common complication is a bruise (hematoma) around the kidney that goes away by itself.
These interventional treatments also offer valuable benefits to those patients with advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma. While not considered curative for these patients, the lesions can be re-treated as needed. Studies are underway on combination treatments. One such study uses cryoablation to kill the primary kidney tumor and immune system stimulation to treat any metastases. Traditional chemotherapy drugs and radiation are generally ineffective for kidney cancer.
Cryoablation is delivered directly into the tumor by a probe that is inserted through the skin using imaging to guide it internally. Cryoablation uses an extremely cold gas to freeze the tumor to kill it. This technique has been used for many years by urologists in the operating room, but in the last few years, the needles have become small enough to be used by interventional radiologists through a small incision in the skin without the need for an operation. The ice ball that is created around the needle grows in size and destroys the frozen tumor cells.
Thermal Ablation Treatments
The conventional treatment for kidney cancer without metastases is surgical removal by a urologist. However, some patients could benefit from minimally invasive, kidney-sparing treatment, such as those with high surgical risk, underlying illnesses, multiple recurrent tumors, borderline kidney function or only one kidney. For these patients, interventional radiologists may be able to treat the tumor with new, less invasive treatments using specially designed needles to eliminate the kidney cancer. The urologist and interventional radiologist work together in a multidisciplinary team to determine whether a less invasive percutaneous ablation can be done safely and effectively.
Radiofrequency Ablation
For inoperable kidney tumors, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) offers a nonsurgical, localized treatment that kills the tumor cells with heat, while sparing the healthy kidney tissue. This treatment is much easier on the patient and is more effective than systemic therapy. Radiofrequency energy can be given without affecting the patient's overall health and most people can resume their usual activities in a few days.
In this procedure, the interventional radiologist guides a small needle through the skin into the tumor. From the tip of the needle, radiofrequency energy is transmitted into the tumor, where it produces heat and kills the tumor cells. The dead tumor tissue shrinks and slowly turns into a scar.
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Additional Facts About RFA
- Is most effective when the kidney cancer is small in size (5cm or less)
- May be performed under conscious sedation or general anesthesia
- Is well tolerated-most patients can resume their normal routines the next day and may feel tired only for a few days
- Can be repeated if necessary
- May be combined with other treatment options
If the tumor is small, RFA can shrink and likely kill the tumor. Although early results are encouraging, long-term follow-up is necessary to determine the precise role of RFA in treating small kidney cancers. Current ongoing studies will determine long-term survival.
Because it is a local treatment that does not harm healthy tissue, the treatment can be repeated as often as needed. It is a very safe procedure, with low complication rates, and it has become more widely available over the last couple of years. The FDA has approved RFA for use in soft tissue tumors, of which renal cell carcinoma is one.
Dead tissue appears larger and darker than the living tumor. Over time, the tumor shrinks as the body absorbs and excretes dead cells
The risks of RFA are similar to a biopsy, namely localized bleeding and some pain. Bleeding that requires action is uncommon partly because the heating from the radiofrequency energy cauterizes the tissue and minimizes the risk of hemorrhage. Heating of the tumor may cause heating of an adjacent structure, which can lead to some healthy tissue damage. This can be avoided by carefully reviewing the size and location of the tumor before the procedure. Tumors adjacent to structures such as bowel may not be candidates for RFA or may require special procedures (injection of fluid) to create safe distances between the tumor being treated and the adjacent bowel.
Since RFA is new, many insurance companies may require preapproval prior to the procedure.
Interventional radiologists use special X-ray equipment to guide therapy directly to the site of tumors
Management of Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma
Arterial Embolization
Advanced renal cell carcinoma tumors are often quite large and invade adjacent structures and veins. They may even extend through the veins into one of the heart chambers. Some patients with advanced tumors may not be surgical candidates. Arterial embolization is an invaluable treatment option for such patients.
During embolization, an interventional radiologist inserts a small tube (catheter) into an artery in the groin and directs it to the renal artery that supplies blood to the kidney and the tumor. The doctor injects small solid particles or special liquid agents into the artery to block the flow of blood into the kidney. The blockage prevents the tumor from getting oxygen and other substances it needs to grow, causing it to shrink.
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In some patients, arterial embolization may shrink the tumor substantially, rendering the patient a suitable surgical candidate. In others, arterial embolization effectively eliminates tumor-related symptoms and improves patients' quality of life.
Arterial embolization has also been used to facilitate surgical resection of large tumors. Blocking the blood supply to the tumor decreases the risk of bleeding and minimizes the amount of blood transfusion during surgery. Similarly, arterial embolization can facilitate ablation of larger tumors. Reduction of blood supply to the tumor renders ablation procedures (RFA or cryoablation) safer and more effective.
Radical Nephrectomy: Kidney cancer may be treated with radical nephrectomy, in which the entire kidney, along with the adrenal gland and some tissue around the kidney, is surgically removed. Some lymph nodes in the area also may be removed.
Simple Nephrectomy: Some patients with early kidney cancer may have a simple nephrectomy which involves removing only the kidney.
Partial Nephrectomy: A surgeon removes the section of the kidney with the tumor. This procedure may be used when the patient has only one kidney or the cancer affects both kidneys, and only in patients with small kidney tumors.
Biological Therapy and Immunotherapy
Biological therapy is a systemic therapy that uses substances injected into the bloodstream to reach and affect cells all over the body. Biological therapy utilizes the body's natural ability, such as using the immune system, to fight cancer.2 Recent advances in immunotherapy have made a significant improvement in survival of patients with inoperable renal cancer.
Chemotherapy is a systemic therapy in which anticancer drugs enter the bloodstream and travel throughout the body. Anticancer drugs have shown limited effectiveness against kidney cancer.
New Cancer Treatments on the Horizon
Interventional radiology is playing a role in developing new techniques that may improve cancer treatment in the future, including the use of magnetic particles to draw cancer-killing agents into tumors; and the delivery of genetic material, called gene therapy, to fight or prevent cancers. These techniques are still investigational, but they offer new hope in the war against cancer.
Magnetic Chemotherapy
Interventional radiologists are currently investigating a new technique in which magnets are used to pull chemotherapy drugs into tumors. Microscopic magnetic particles are attached to the cancer-killing drugs and infused through a catheter into the blood vessel that feeds the tumor. A rare earth magnet is positioned over the patient's body directly above the site of the tumor. The magnet pulls the drug-carrying particles out of the blood vessel so that they lodge in the tumor. Although the technique is still experimental, early research is promising. Physicians are hopeful that it will bolster the effects of chemotherapy while avoiding some of the drugs' side effects, such as hair loss and nausea.
Gene Therapy
In recent years, scientists have gained a new understanding about genes-the basic biological units of heredity-and the role they play in disease. This knowledge has set the stage for medical science to alter patients' genetic material to fight or prevent cancer. Although the science of gene therapy is still in the early, experimental stages, researchers are hoping that in the future the therapy can be used to:
- alter the cells of a patient's natural immune system with cancer-fighting genes and returning them to the body, where they could more forcefully attack the cancer
- remove cancer cells from the body and alter them genetically so that the patient's own immune system will mount a strong defense against them. In this technique, the altered cancer cells would act as a cancer vaccine
- replace a faulty gene responsible for the growth of cancer with a "good" gene
- inject a tumor with genes that will make it more susceptible to chemotherapy or other cancer-fighting agents
- make bone marrow and other organs resistant to chemotherapy, so that the drugs will destroy tumors without damaging healthy tissue
One of the challenges of gene therapy is finding safe and effective ways to deliver genes or genetically altered cells to the site of the tumor. Interventional radiologists, with their special expertise in using X-rays and other imaging techniques to guide catheters and other tools through the body are expected to play an important role in this new technology.
Treatments for Cancer Complications
There are also a number of interventional radiology techniques that are used to treat the complications of cancer, including pain, bleeding, obstruction of vital organs, blood clots and infection. Although these treatments do not cure cancer, they can make patients more comfortable, extend life by treating serious complications and improve the quality of life for cancer patients.
Treating Pain
Control of pain is one of the most important aspects of cancer care. Pain not only affects patients' quality of life and ability to function, it may also lower their tolerance for needed cancer treatments.
In many cancer patients, pain results from the spread of the tumor into surrounding nerves and other tissues. For example, patients with cancer of the pancreas or stomach, sometimes experience pain from the spread of the tumor into a network of nerves and blood vessels in the abdomen called the celiac plexus. To treat the pain, interventional radiologists insert catheters or needles into the affected area and administer alcohol or other agents that destroy the nerves causing the pain.
A particularly painful complication of cancer is when the disease spreads (metastasizes) to bones. In a technique called transcatheter embolization, interventional radiologists inject tiny particles, the size of grains of sand, through a catheter and into the artery that supplies blood to the tumor. The particles cause clotting that decreases the tumor's blood supply, reducing pain and decreasing the likelihood of bone fracture.
Controlling Bleeding
If a cancer spreads to the blood vessels it may cause hemorrhage or bleeding. An interventional radiology technique called transcatheter embolization can be used to clot the affected blood vessels and stop the bleeding.
Treating Organ Obstruction and Infection
Cancers can obstruct the normal flow of urine or bile, causing these fluids to build up in the body. If left untreated, these conditions are not only painful but may also result in organ failure or infection. Under X-ray guidance, catheters can be inserted to drain the collection of fluids. Often, a small device called a stent is inserted into the organ to bypass the obstruction and allow fluids to drain internally.
Treating Blood Clots
One common side effect of cancer or cancer treatments is the development of blood clots, or emboli, that can be life-threatening if they travel to the brain, lungs or heart. There are two interventional radiology procedures that can reduce the risks posed by blood clots:
- Intra-arterial thrombolysis. In this technique, the interventional radiologist guides a catheter through the blood vessels and to the site of a blood clot. Clot-busting drugs are infused through the catheter to break up the clot.
- Filter placement. This technique is most often used when a blood clot is detected in the blood vessels of the leg (a condition called deep vein thrombosis). The interventional radiologist guides a small filter into the blood vessel that receives blood from the lower body (the vena cava) and carries it to the heart. If the blood clot dislodges from the vein in the leg, the filter will trap it before it can reach the heart.
Interventional Radiologists are Minimally Invasive Experts
Interventional radiologists work with other specialists on a multidisciplinary cancer team to determine the best treatment for each individual patient. Interventional radiology is a recognized medical specialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Interventional radiologists are board-certified physicians with extensive training in disease diagnosis, management and treatment. Their board certification includes both Vascular and Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology which are administered by the American Board of Radiology. This training marries state-of-the-art imaging and diagnostic expertise, coupled with clinical experience across all specialties and in-depth knowledge of the least invasive treatments. Interventional oncology is a growing area within interventional radiology.


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Dear friends of Xt3,
Year of Consecrated Life - Meet Sr Angela
2015 was the Year of Consecrated Life, and we're wrapping up this special Year on World Day for Consecrated Life on February 2, 2016. We sat down to chat to some of Australia's consecrated men and women.
Where Does the Time Go? First Anniversary of World Youth Day in Madrid
It was a year ago that Benedict XVI traveled to Spain's capital to lead World Youth Day. The gathering brought together more than 2 million youths from all over the world, all of whom traveled to Madrid to celebrate their faith.
The Best of World Youth Day Madrid 2011 - Summarized in New Book
Even before World Youth Day was celebrated in Madrid, Benedict XVI described the gathering as a 'cascade of light.' Now, a year later, this is the title of a new World Youth Day book. The book, which is in Spanish, includes 224 photographs and all the speeches given by Benedict XVI.
Madrid Youth Travel to Rome, Thank Pope for World Youth Day 2011
On 2 April 2012, Pope Benedict XVI will meet with young people from Madrid, who will thank the Pope for choosing Madrid to host the last World Youth Day and, above all, for the fruits produced by his trip to Spain.
Year in Review: World Youth Day 2011
As we approach the end of the year, it is a good time to reflect on the largest Catholic event that marked 2011 - World Youth Day in Madrid! Do you remember Xt3's promo video for WYD? Watch it again as we recall the great moments of the Pope's visit to Madrid.
Young Catholic Inspired by the Pope's Fortitude During World Youth Day Storm
In the midst of rainstorm at the Madrid prayer vigil, 27-year-old recalls, 'We were not afraid at all because we could see that the first one who was serene was the Holy Father. He transmitted a lot of serenity, a lot of calmness.'
In the Face of the Storm, Pope Benedict XVI Stood Strong
As thunder, lightning and wind whipped through the World Youth Day prayer vigil this past August, Pope Benedict XVI was advised to leave the event three times. But he insisted that if the young people stayed, then he would too. The revelation comes from a young Honduran woman was who stood next to the Pope throughout the event.
World Youth Day 2011 - Highlights
Take a look at the video highlights from Aussie Pilgrimage to World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid! See you in Rio in 2013...
Catholic Youth Answer to Anti-Pope Protests at WYD11, Madrid
Watch this video to find out how Catholic youth responded to the atheist, anti-pope march that took place on August 17, during World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid.
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Mount Sinai leads unprecedented attempt to discover rules for assembling human tissue
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and two other academic institutions have received federal funding to systematically assemble functional human kidney tissue from tissue modeled on a computer. If successful, the research—which ties together several emerging technologies including virtual tissue modeling and nanofabrication—could lead to a more predictable way for researchers to engineer tissue outside the body and, consequently, to screen for new drugs.
To fund the project, called Dynamics Underlying Tissue Integrity, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a five-year, $6-million grant from its Transformative Research Projects (T-R01) program. T-R01 is a new program designed to support exceptionally innovative research initiatives whose anticipated outcomes have a major impact on broad, important problems in biomedical and/or behavioral research. T-R01 awardees—42 total this year—receive part of their funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The leader for this multi-principal investigator project, Ravi Iyengar, PhD, Director of the Experimental Therapeutics Institute (ETI) at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, said creation of a device for assembling tissue will require his team to solve a problem that has existed since pathologists first began examining human cells under microscopes.
"Pathologists typically characterize disease in patients by studying the shape of cells and tissues, and their diagnosis has always been largely empirical," said Dr. Iyengar, who is also Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosenstiel Professor and Chair, Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, and Professor of Oncological Sciences and Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "No one knows why cell shapes change or the rules by which tissues are organized. We want to start getting a handle on this by studying the kidney, and doing that will require the collaboration of several different disciplines."
The scientists plan to focus on the podocyte, a specialized kidney cell that sits on the organ's basement membrane and controls the filtration of small molecules from proteins. A breach in this filtration barrier is a main cause of kidney disease that often occurs among patients with diabetes, HIV, and hypertension. African-Americans with hypertension are four times more likely than whites with hypertension to develop kidney disease, a condition that currently has no cure and can eventually necessitate dialysis.
According to Dr. Iyengar, discovering the tenets underlying tissue assembly, as he and colleagues plan to do here, and having a more predictable method for assembling tissues within a nanofabricated device, would have broad clinical impact. "Lack of engineered tissue devices in vitro, or outside the cell body, is a big impediment in testing new drugs," he said. "If this experiment works and we have a methodology to assemble these tissues within nanofabricated devices, this could become a very useful screening approach for discovery of new drugs for kidney disease."
"The efforts of Dr. Iyengar's team to better understand kidney function at the cellular level will aid therapeutics research," said Dennis S. Charney, MD, the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. "Mount Sinai, whose infrastructure is designed to foster translational research, is tailor made for collaborative research projects such as this."
Much of the research will take place at the ETI, Mount Sinai's hub for developing new drugs and devices through integrating many facets of therapeutics research, and the NIGMS funded Systems Biology Center New York (SBCNY), which Dr. Iyengar also directs and which is also based at Mount Sinai. SBCNY researchers study at a systems level the molecular interactions within cells and their connection to the physiological function of tissues and organs.
"Dr. Iyengar has seized upon an extraordinary opportunity—the ability to harness systems biology to facilitate the development of new drugs and diagnostic tools," said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. "His work has the potential to create a new scientific paradigm."
The other principal investigators from Mount Sinai include John Cijiang He, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Nephrology and Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, and Susana Neves, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics.
Two other principal investigators sharing in the grant and lending their expertise are James C. Hone, PhD, of Columbia University, who will design and fabricate the micro- or nanometer-scale devices, and Leslie M. Loew, PhD, who pioneered the development of a computational modeling platform at the University of Connecticut Health Center called the Virtual Cell. Dr. Loew will develop computational models of how cells interact within kidney tissues.
These computational models, or virtual tissue, will form the basis for designing the device for recreating kidney function. The hope is to learn the rules of tissue organization as the team refines the device through testing the computer models and imaging the flow of cell signals within the reassembled tissue from both mouse and human cells.
Commenting on the grant, Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, Director of the NIH, said the T-R01 program "is intended to support research that has the potential to transform the way we think about and conduct science, so the recipients represent an elite few with truly bold ideas. Competition for the awards was fierce, and standards very high."
Source: The Mount Sinai Hospital


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City Court
Commercial Claims
All small claims matters can be filed Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. by plaintiff in person or an authorized agent of the plaintiff.
- Filing fee:
- $25.00 for claims plus postage. Additional postage for each additional defendant
- Maximum amount of claim $5,000.00
- Defendant must reside, work or have a regular place of business within the County
- Plaintiff must be a Corporation, partnership or assignees
Information needed for filing:
- All parties' name and address (No P.O. Box, a physical address must be provided)
- Actual dollar amount for which you are suing
- Reason for claim (please make as detailed as possible)
IF YOU ARE AWARDED A JUDGMENT, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO COLLECT THE JUDGMENT. The booklet "A Guide to Commercial Claims in the NYS City, Town and Village Courts" is available to help explain how to enforce your judgment. The Court cannot make the party pay you.
Important Notice:
You must be prepared for your trial at your first court appearance
You should gather all the evidence necessary to prove your claim or your counter-claim. Anything that you believe may help prove the facts in dispute should be brought to Court. This includes photographs, written agreements, an itemized bill or invoice that is receipted or marked "paid", written estimates of the cost of the service or repairs, a receipt for the purchase of an item or the payment of a dept, cancelled checks, and correspondence. Video tape can be submitted as proof (VHS tapes ONLY). If you rely on estimates, two different written itemized estimates of the cost of the service or repair are required. Testimony, including your own, is evidence. Any witness whose testimony is important to your case may testify. This can be a person who witnessed your transaction or someone whose special knowledge and experience makes him or her an expert on the cost of the service or repairs that were provided for may be required.


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The Gate and Adkin High School alumni; Trudy Pickett's Home Solutions column
The Gate receives donation
Felix Coward, president of Kinston Chapter of Adkin High School Alumni and Friends, Inc., recently presented a check for $3,000 to Wanda Hall, director of The Gate.
Supporting The Gate�s programs is one of the chapter�s community involvement objectives. This contribution from Chapter members, their families and friends helped fund a trip to Washington, D.C., June 20-23. Fourteen youth visited Arlington Cemetery, Iwo Jima Monument, Dr. Martin Luther King Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Smithsonian Institution and other sites. One of the most memorable events was witnessing the awarding of scholarships to college-bound students by First Baptist Church of North Brentwood, Md.
Kinston chapter members Carolyn and Felix Coward accompanied the group.
Home Solutions: Fill the cracks
Gaps, cracks and holes in your home can result in serious loss of heat through the winter, so fill them in as a home improvement project. Hardware stores have high-quality caulk for less than $3, a foam sealant pack for less than $5 and weather stripping packages for less than $2 each. Experts say the average home can have combined cracks and gaps amounting to 16 square feet of space.
Two types of expanding foam sealant � polyurethane products and latex-based products � fill gaps and holes that are too large to pack with caulking. Polyurethane cures to a rigid but porous texture, and can be sculpted to a suitable shape. Latex cures to a spongy non-sculptable texture, but while setting up still can be tooled, shaped or molded, giving lots of texturing options.
Both types stick to almost anything, including wood, aluminum, masonry, galvanized steel, plastic, rubber, drywall, glass and, based on experience, skin. Be careful where you put it.
Foam acts as a form-fitting barrier to the elements, and has no nutritional value so it doesn�t attract insects or rodents. It doesn�t support the growth of mold or fungus in damp conditions, and it doesn�t have an offensive odor as you�re using it, or after it has cured.
Many brands are free of volatile organic compounds that pollute the environment. Read the label.
Foam efficiently seals air leaks that compromise the energy-efficiency of your home. It sets up quickly, fills large voids, deadens sound, is airtight and water resistant and conforms to any shape as it expands.
Foam can (and should) be painted after fully cured to protect it from UV light, which causes discoloration and deterioration.
If you haven�t used expanding foam before, go with a low-expansion variety. (Check the label.) High-expansion expands 200-300 percent over a couple of hours, so use an extremely subtle touch. If you overdo it, unsightly glops of uncured foam will spill out of crevices, so squirt in 35 to 50 percent of what you think you need.
It cleans up with acetone but not easily, so take care with applying expansion foam. Wear gloves and eye protection when applying expansion foam. You�ll be glad you did.
Resource: University of Nebraska�Lincoln Extension
Trudy W. Pickett is extension family and consumer agent at the Lenoir County Cooperative Extension Office, 1791 N.C. 11/55. Reach her at 252-527-2191 or email@example.com.


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- 1 Graphics, Presentations, and Other Re-Usable Content
- 1.1 Presentations Available on the Web
- 1.2 Archives and Museums
- 1.3 Library and Semantic Web talks
- 1.4 Linked data at igelu 2011
- 1.5 Digital Humanities focused events
- 1.6 Webcasts
- 1.7 Other Learning Materials
- 1.8 Other Lists of Semantic Library Resources
Graphics, Presentations, and Other Re-Usable Content
If you create presentations or training materials that you can share, please add them to this page.
The page is a continuation of Presentation in the wiki of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group.
Presentations Available on the Web
- NYLINK May, 2010 presentation by Karen Coyle
- SKOS presentations by various persons
- Cologne Conference on Interoperability and Semantics in Knowledge Organization (July 19-20, 2010): presentations by various persons
- Tutorial on Semantic Digital Libraries, ICSD '09, Sebastian Kruk, http://www.slideshare.net/knowledgehives/tutorial-on-semantic-digital-libraries-at-icsd09
- The Semantic Web and Libraries in the United States: Experimentation and Achievements, Sharon Yang, Yanyi Lee, Amanda Zu, http://www.slideshare.net/elephantsmith/the-semantic-web-and-libraries-in-the-united-states-experimentation-and-achievements
- Semantic Web Technologies: Changing Bibliographic, Stuart Weibel, North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries, 2009 http://www.slideshare.net/stuartweibel/semantic-web-technologies-changing-bibliographic-descriptions
- Does metadata matter? Andy Powell -- GREAT slides! http://www.slideshare.net/eduservfoundation/does-metadata-matter
- Linked data and why we (librarians) should care - presentation at IFLA satellite meeting, August 2009 by Emmanuelle Bermes http://www.slideshare.net/Figoblog/linked-data-and-why-we-librarians-should-care
- Les catalogues sur le Web by Emmanuelle Bermes (french) - Medial, June 2009 http://www.slideshare.net/Figoblog/les-catalogues-sur-le-web
- Le Web sémantique : un Web de métadonnées by Yann Nicolas (french) - Journées de l'ABES, May 2010 http://www.slideshare.net/yannn/le-web-smantique-un
- Le Web de données et les bibliothèques by Gautier Poupeau (french) - June 2008 http://www.slideshare.net/lespetitescases/le-web-de-donnes-et-les-bibliothques-presentation
- Séminaire INRIA IST 2008 "Métadonnées : mutations et perspectives" (french) - September 2008 http://www.inria.fr/actualites/colloques/2008/ist08/programme.fr.html
- Introducing metadata: finding stuff and using stuff. (A basic introduction to metadata for librarians, by Gordon Dunsire.) http://gordondunsire.com/pubs/pres/IntroducingMetadata.ppt
- RDA vocabularies and concepts. (Overview of activity around RDA, by Gordon Dunsire.) http://gordondunsire.com/pubs/pres/NLSRDA.ppt
- A short history of the evolution of the catalogue record. (From the record to the triple, by Gordon Dunsire.) http://gordondunsire.com/pubs/pres/EvolCatRec.ppt
- Linking KOS data (educational and research purpose presentations, using SKOS and OWL2)
- Using SKOS in practice, with examples from the classification domain (by Antoine Isaac), abstract, ppt and mp3 are available at: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/programme.htm
- Linking KOS data (by Marcia Zeng) -- Walking through KOS linked data, explaining in triples and SKOS http://www.slideshare.net/mzeng/linking-kos-data-using-skos-and-owl2 Presentation given at a seminar at UNC 2010-03
- Expression Classification Systems using OWL2 -- part 3 (by Marcia Zeng, Michael Panzer, Athena Salaba) -- Our first attempt to express complicated classification systems using OWL2, given at ISKO Conf. at 2010-02 http://www.slideshare.net/mzeng/expressing-classification-schemes-part-3
- Modeling Classification Systems in SKOS: Some Challenges and Best-Practice Recommendations (by Michael Panzer and Marcia Lei Zeng at DC2009 conf.) http://www.slideshare.net/mzeng/skos-for-classification-systems
- SKOS for an Integrated Vocabulary Structure (poster by Marcia Zeng, Wei Fan, Xia Lin)--Presented two models for using SKOS for a mapped thesaurus-classification system product, given at Dublin Core conference 2008 http://www.slideshare.net/mzeng/skos-for-an-integrated-vocabulary-structure-poster
- The W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group (by Felix Sasaki). Presentation at "Internet of Services" forum of Xinnovations 2010 (in German).
- The Linked Library Data Cloud. (It's time to stop thinking and start linking, by Ross Singer) at the 2010 LITA National Forum. Video also available
- RDF For Librarians Jenn Riley
- "The RDF model underlying Semantic Web technologies is frequently described as the future of structured metadata. Its adoption in libraries has been slow, however. This is due in no small part to fundamental differences in the modeling approach that RDF takes, representing a "bottom up" architecture where a description is distributed and can be made up of any features deemed necessary, whereas the record-centric approach taken by libraries tends to be more "top down" relying on prespecified feature sets that all should strive to make the best use of. This presentation will delve deeply into the differences between these two approaches to explore why the RDF approach has proven difficult for libraries, look at some RDF-based initiatives that are happening in libraries and how they are allowing different uses of this metadata than was previously possible, and pose some questions about how libraries might best."
- "Linked Data --Enabling Standards and �Other Approaches" -- Panel presentations at ASIS- 2010 links to presentations by Sam Oh and others
- Tutorial on Semantic Digital Libraries at ICSD 2009 by Sebastian Kruk
- Web 3.0: A story about the Semantic Web Video by Kate Ray (mainly interviews, CC-by-sa)
- Linking Library Data on the Web by Dan Chudnov
- Linked Data feedback mechanisims by Dan Chudnov at Code4Lib North 2011
- Eric Hellman, PDF and PPTX re why publish linked data, from ALA via this blog post and related to his schema.org post
- Lukas Koster will present "Linked Data and Ex Libris tools" session, together with a number of others, at the IGeLU (International Group of Ex Libris Users) 2011 conference in September this year. See session 9.1 in the online programme: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0ArJyygNQC2ECdEw1cnFpS2ZIZEozTDAzNUd4SnRmOEE&output=html
- What Is Linked Data, and What Does it Mean for Libraries? ALAO TEDSIG Spring Meeting, Emily Nimsakont, 2011-05-27
Links to the recordings of the video streaming and all the slides from Linked Data and Libraries 2011 in London on July 14th are now available at http://consulting.talis.com/resources/presentations-from-linked-data-and-libraries-2011/
Highlights included Adrian Stevenson's report on the LOD-LAM Summit and the announcement of the British National Bibliography publication as Linked Data by the British Library: http://consulting.talis.com/2011/07/significant-bibliographic-linked-data-release-from-the-british-library/
Since the event Tim Hodson, who worked with the British Library team, has posted an overview of the BL's Data Model: http://consulting.talis.com/2011/07/british-library-data-model-overview/
- RDF og Linked data – en praktisk innføring - Kim Tallerås & David Massey - KORG-dagene 2011 -- good discussion of graphs vs. records from Oslo -- that when part-by-part through the MARC record, part of this day of talks
- Linked Open Data for Libraries, presented at Dutch National Librarian/Information Professianal Association annual conference 2011 - NVB2011, November 17, 2011 by Lukas Koster
- Gordon Dunsire, presentation on the work of the LLDXG at a Library science talk organized by the Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists (AILIS) and the Swiss National Library, on 12 and 13 March 2012. "Linked data, libraries, and the Semantic Web". PPT webpage for talk
- When we come together by Constantinescu Nicolaie 27-28 October 2011. The world/European horizons of librarianship in the digital age
Archives and Museums
- Mark Matienzo Archives & the Semantic Web http://www.slideshare.net/anarchivist/archives-the-semantic-web
- Mark Matienzo Linked Data and Archival Description: Confluences, Contingencies, and Conflicts http://www.slideshare.net/anarchivist/linked-data-and-archival-description-confluences-contingencies-and-conflicts
- Do the LOCAH-Motion: How to Make Bibliographic and Archival Linked Data Adrian Stevenson 2010-02
- SAA 2011, Jenel Farrell, MDOR presentation
- SAA 2011, Adrian Stevenson,
http://www.slideshare.net/adrianstevenson/saa-chicago2011Archives in the Web of Data: Toward a Virtuous Flow of Data in the UK and Beyond]
- Adrian Stevenson, Glam Rocks London SemWeb, http://www.slideshare.net/adrianstevenson/glam-rocks-london-semantic-web-meetup
- Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums: An Aggregators View by Richard Urban, American Association of Museums, May 2012
Library and Semantic Web talks
- ALA Library Linked Data 2010 presentations (directory)
- Ed Summers: Confessions of a Graph Addict http://inkdroid.org/journal/2010/06/24/confessions-of-a-graph-addict/
- Karen Coyle: Libraries, Linked Data http://bit.ly/dokX1e http://kcoyle.net/presentations/AALL2010kc.pdf
- Linked legacy data ... because MARC ain't dead, yet, Ross Singer
- The Semantic Web and RDA: Making the Catalog a Networked Bibliographic Environment
- SNAC Daniel Pitti's, Ray Larson's, and Brian Tingle's slides from SAA
- ALA Library Linked Data 2012 presentations https://docs.google.com/document/d/16pYEHXq3dnw2ABhRp3RzxCT7-ivry-E7XjMBhtluD8E/edit?pli=1
- The Linked Library Data Cloud: Stop talking and start doing, Code4Lib 2010, by Ross Singer http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/singer
- HIVE: A New Tool for Working With Vocabularies - Ryan Scherle and Jose Aguera, Code4Lib 2010, http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/scherle_aguera
- Why libraries should embrace Linked Data, Code4Lib 2009, http://www.slideshare.net/eby/why-libraries-should-embrace-linked-data (video etc via http://code4lib.org/conference/2009/schedule )
- Keynote: Ian Davis: If You Love Something...Set it Free, Code4Lib 2009, http://www.slideshare.net/iandavis/code4lib2009-keynote-1073812 (video etc via http://code4lib.org/conference/2009/schedule )
- Keynote: Karen Coyle - "R&D: Can Resource Description become Rigorous Data?", Code4Lib 2008, http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/kcoyle
- Finding Relationships in Marc Data - Rob Styles, Code4Lib 2008, http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/styles
- A Metadata Registry, Jon Phipps, Code4Lib 2008, http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/phipps
- Makx Dekkers and Tom Baker, Joint NISO/DCMI Webinar "Dublin Core: The Road from Metadata Formats to Linked Data", 25 August 2010
- ELAG10 presentations, by Jind?ich Mynarz at the National Technical Library of the Czech Republic
- ELAG 2011 presentations
- ELAG 2012 presentations
- "Envisioning Social Applications of Library Linked Data", Uldis Bojars & Jodi Schneider
- Intro to Linked Open Data ELAG 2012 preconference
Linked data at igelu 2011
see http://igelu.org/conferences/haifa-2011/archive-of-presentations Linked data and Ex Libris tools – chaired by Lukas Koster, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Linked data and Ex Libris products – introduction - Lukas Koster, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Publishing Aleph data as linked open data - Silke Schomburg, HBZ, Germany Linked open dedup vectors – An experiment with RDFa in Primo - Corey Harper, New York University, USA Exploiting DBPedia for use in Primo - Ulrike Krabo, OBVSG, Austria Linking library and theatre data - Lukas Koster,University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Linked data and Ex Libris products – summary - Lukas Koster, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Ex Libris – linked data outlook - Axel Kaschte, Ex Libris
- IFLA 2010 Libraries and the semantic web: Session 149 — Information Technology, Cataloguing, Classification and Indexing with Knowledge Management, World Library and Information Congress, 15 August 2010 08:30-12:45, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Keynote. By Richard Wallis.
- Initiatives to make standard library metadata models and structures available to the Semantic Web. By Gordon Dunsire and Mirna Willer.
- The Europeana Data Model (EDM). By Martin Doerr and others.
- Linked data for libraries. By Jan Hanneman and Jurgen Kett.
- Step one: blow up the silo! - Open bibliographic data, the first step towards Linked Open Data. By Patrick Danowski.
- Porting library vocabularies to the Semantic Web, and back. A win-win round trip. By Bernard Vatant.
- CONTENTUS - towards semantic multi-media libraries. By Jan Nandzik and others.
- Talis Open Days on Linked Data and Libraries 2010 with videos from the event
- Very good talk by Rob Styles on general issues of putting bibliographic data as linked data: http://www.slideshare.net/mmmmmrob/linked-bibliographic-data
- Introduction of the LLD XG by Antoine http://www.slideshare.net/antoineisaac/w3c-library-linked-data-incubator-group
- Various presentations (slides and videos) on the site on the French Natl. Library, the British Library, Europeana/TEL, Talis and related cases
- Linked data prototyping at the British Library. By Neil Wilson http://talis-linkeddata-libraries.s3.amazonaws.com/Linked%20Data%20Prototyping.pdf
- Talis Open Days on Linked Data and Libraries 2011
- Presentation of the LLD XG by Antoine http://www.slideshare.net/antoineisaac/w3c-library-linked-data-incubator-group-2011
Regional and national
- Dan Chudnov, Better Living Through Linking, TCDL 2009 Keynote http://www.slideshare.net/dchud/tcdl-2009-keynote-better-living-through-linking
National Library of Scotland
- William's presentation of the XG report at the National Library of Scotland: http://eris.okfn.org/ww/2011/06/nls/
Events to get presentation materials from
- DCMI Workshop on RDA, DC and Linked Data (DCMI-ASIAPAC WORKSHOP 2013) - Karen Coyle & Sam Oh, http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/BibData/ap2013
Digital Humanities focused events
- https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/ld4l/ Linked Data for Libraries] Cornell, Stanford, Harvard
- Linked Data in the digital humanities Jodi Schneider, Michael Hausenblas, Nuno Lopes, and Stefan Decker. "Linked Data in the Digital Humanities," Skills Workshop at Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities, Dublin, Ireland, 2012-10-25.
- ALA TechSource Webinar, April 2, 2010, by Karen Coyle
- Beyond the OPAC, Centro Servizi Biblioteche della Provincia di Treviso, May 15, 2010. Nuove Direzioni in Metadata, by Karen Coyle. (in Italian)
- Le Web de données, perspectives pour les métiers de l'information-documentation. 5 à 7 de l'ADBS, February 18, 2010 by Emmanuelle Bermes (french)
- CNI: Linked Open Data: The Promises and the Pitfalls (panel)
- What place for libraries in a Linked Data world? by Sarah Bartlett
Other Learning Materials
- The start to a curriculum about Semantic Web for Libraries/Librarians
- Notes from a Code4Lib workshop on Linked Data
Related to the LLD Incubator Group
- Library Linked Data - Work of the W3C LLD Incubator Group at Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland, National Library of Scotland, June 17th 2011 - William Waites
- RDA Vocabularies for a Twenty-First-Century Data Environment, Library Technology Reports (subscription/pay)
- Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata, Library Technology Reports (subscription/pay)
- Note: Many libraries subscribe to Library Technology Reports through EBSCO.
Other Lists of Semantic Library Resources
Not Library-Specific
- Talis training materials (CC-BY) http://api.talis.com/stores/training/items/training.html
- Leigh Dodds and Ian Davis Linked Data Patterns: A Catalogue for modeling, publishing and consuming Linked Data http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/


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Carpet Cleaning North Weald
CleanGo UK offer professional carpet cleaning in North Weald, CM16. When it comes to professional carpet cleaning and maintenance, CleanGo UK is the name to trust. From removing stains to deodorising, we have your needs covered. All our carpet cleaning technicians are trained to ensure we delivery a high standard clean every time. We tailor our carpet cleaning service to our clients needs or requirements at an affordable price and a time that best suits them.
Our carpet cleaning procedure is as follows:
A pre-inspection: Our team will inspect the carpet in order to let you know what can or cannot be done.
Moving furniture: Light furniture will be moved away, but do not worry – at the end of the process we will return it on its place. Of course, we will not move anything heavy or breakable.
Pre-treatment: The cleaning process begins with pre-treatment with a safe, child and pet-friendly solution.
Cleaning: We use high pressured cleaning equipment for a thorough deep clean.
Post-inspection: Final look at the job along with you in order to find and clean anything left that can be removed.
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These Fish Plastic Beads come 100 assorted beads to a package in several different colors, and are 13 x 19 mm in size, with a 2.5mm hole. Fish Beads can be used with Pony Beads, or Faceted Beads, or any other beads, to create multiple beaded craft projects.
We also carry a complete line of beading accessories and findings, such as elastic cords, lanyards, split key rings, and many more beading items.


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Dunedin, Edinburgh of the south - Roadside Stories
A Manatū Taonga audio guide to Dunedin's Scottish heritage.
Check out the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's audio guide to Dunedin's Scottish heritage in the Video tab.
Dunedin was settled by Scots from 1848, and even its name is a Gaelic version of Edinburgh. Once – but no longer – New Zealand's largest, wealthiest city, Dunedin retains a Scottish sensibility, with its stone buildings, Highland games, bagpipers and chilly weather – as well as whisky and haggis on offer around town.
View of Dunedin from 'Little Paisley'
Otago region: Presbyterians and Scots
Archival audio sourced from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives, http://www.soundarchives.co.nz/. Sound files may not be reused without permission from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives (Reference number C293).
Roadside Stories is a series of audio guides that follow major road trips in New Zealand. The stories cover the places you'll pass along the way – their people and history, and their cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Cobra baseball team swept its double-header against the Chowan University Hawks on Sunday (Feb. 2) winning game one, 12-3 and taking game two, 6-2. Coker won the three-game series 2-1 and improves to 2-1 overall to start the 2014 season.
Pitching and hitting were the keys to the Cobras victory in game one. Coker scored 12 runs on 14 hits, while starting pitcher Matthew Prosser was lights out on the mound, holding the Hawks to just two hits in six innings of work.
The Cobras scored at least one run in five of the seven innings, plating four runs in the third, two in the fourth and another four in the fifth. Chowan's three runs came in the top of the seventh, making it a 12-3 final.
Prosser (1-0) finished the game with seven strikeouts, and allowed no runs in six innings on the mound.
Will Winslow and Shea Bell led the Cobras at the plate as both went 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Winslow had two doubles and scored a pair of runs, while Bell had a double and scored a single run. Jarren Donato, Fico Kondla and Ernie Kirkwood each collected multiple hits and drove in runs. Donato had two hits and drove in two runs, while Kondla had a double, with an RBI and three runs scored, and Kirkwood had a triple with an RBI and a run scored.
In game two, freshman pitcher Ben Brown and senior centerfielder Sammy Song led the way in the 6-2 win.
Brown (1-0) made his collegiate debut a memorable one as he went the distance for the Cobras. He allowed just two runs on two hits with five strikeouts in seven innings of work.
Song was the offensive catalyst for the Cobras as he went 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI and three runs scored. Kirkwood added two RBIs on a triple, while Kondla and T.J. Giczkowski each hit doubles. Giczkowski also drove in a run.
In the second game of the day, Coker once again jumped out to a 1-0 lead with a run in the bottom of the first inning. Chowan answered with a run of their own in the top of the second, to tie the game. A two-run third inning by Coker gave the Cobras a little breathing room at 3-1.
The Hawks would not go quietly, as they cut the lead to just one with a run an inning later. After a scoreless fifth, the Cobras put the game away with a three-run sixth, taking home the 6-2 victory.
The Cobras will be back on the diamond on Tuesday (Feb. 4) at home against St. Augustine's College. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Coker's Tom J. New Field.
McDonald's Player of the Game – Sammy Song and Ernie Kirkwood