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Luanne Metz, director of the multiple sclerosis clinic at the faculty of medicine at the University of Calgary, holds a model of the human brain
Tom Blackwell, National Post · Jan. 23, 2010 | Last Updated: Jan. 24, 2010 9:22 AM ET
For long-suffering multiple sclerosis patients, it seemed like a miracle: a relatively simple new explanation for what causes the often-crippling disease, and an equally straightforward fix.
Indeed, glowingly positive Canadian media accounts of work by Italy's Dr. Paolo Zamboni, who says the disease can be treated by unblocking veins from the brain, have triggered a sensation across the MS world -- and raised questions about how journalists and scientists portray medical research to the public.
Clinics throughout Canada and the United States have been deluged with calls and emails from patients eager to learn more or demanding immediate treatment with the new technique, often bringing the offices' regular work to a halt, physicians say.
Some doctors report that patients have gone off their medication, with potentially long-term negative implications. Others have talked of taking out loans or even selling their houses to fund the experimental therapy. Almost overnight, the MS Society directed hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding to study of the new concept.
Meanwhile, neurologists trying to explain the limitations of Dr. Zamboni's findings have faced sometimes angry recriminations from patients desperate for a cure.
"Many of the callers were very abusive, right from the start," said Dr. Luanne Metz, director of the Foothills Hospital MS clinic in Calgary. "Nasty to the nurses, accusing us of withholding treatment or playing Big Brother and not letting people have what they want, and arguing and arguing and arguing."
MS specialists blame the over-heated response in large part on that CTV documentary and an accompanying newspaper report, calling the stories one-sided depictions of preliminary, unproven research, including the treatment Dr. Zamboni evocatively terms the "Liberation" procedure.
At best, his work represents a promising new way of looking at MS that requires much more validation and testing before it can be widely applied, experts say. At worst, the more rigorous investigation now getting underway will show it to be a scientific dead end.
Most MS neurologists interviewed recently said they welcome the expanded research into Dr. Zamboni's theory, if only to settle the controversy; others lament what they consider a media-driven distraction. "There have been reverberations across the world as a result of that media story," said Dr. Mark Freedman, a neurologist at Ottawa Hospital and a top MS researcher. "I think there are going to be millions of dollars spent now to follow a hoax.... If I thought for one instant there was substance to this, I'd be all over it. But there really is very, very vague backing for the whole theory."
M e a n w h i l e , D r. Pa u l O'Connor, medical advisor to the MS Society of Canada, has joined an international expert panel the Italian society put together to "audit" Dr. Zamboni's findings. Canada has much at stake in the affair, with up to 75,000 patients and one of the world's highest rates of MS. The disease, triggered by damage to the brain's "myelin" coating, causes symptoms ranging from blurred vision to paralysis. Science to date has suggested that the cause is an autoimmune response, the body's immune system turning on itself.
Drugs are available to attack the inflammation that damages the myelin, decrease the severity and length of relapses and treat specific symptoms of MS, such as spasticity or pain, though their effectiveness is limited and side effects can be nasty. Dr. Zamboni, a vascular surgeon whose work would normally have nothing to do with MS, became interested after his wife was diagnosed with the illness. He says ultrasound scans of her head and those of other patients point to a novel new theory of how the illness occurs. Essentially, the surgeon hypothesizes that veins draining blood from the brain become narrowed in MS patients, slowing the blood flow and causing backups to the brain, which in turn prompt inflammation and the resulting myelin damage.
His team operated on his wife and others in an effort to open up their blockages -- which he dubs chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) -- with an "angioplasty," the insertion of a tiny balloon that is inflated inside the affected vessels. Dr. Zamboni says his wife has been symptom-free for three years, and he claims to have successfully treated many other patients, too.
The report on CTV's W5 program eloquently recounted the surgeon's compelling personal story and voyage of discovery, adding interviews with patients who have undergone the procedure and feel all but cured, as well as clips from supportive doctors who are working with the Italian.
A front-page Globe and Mail piece on the topic ran the same Saturday. Neither quoted any of the many physicians who are skeptical of Dr. Zamboni's research, though Dr. Freedman says the CTV reporter did ask his opinion earlier. By Monday morning, hundreds of MS patients were flooding the phone lines of their local clinics, doctors say.
At Dr. Metz's Calgary office, staff were so busy handling anxious Zamboni calls, patients with other, serious concerns had trouble getting through, she said. Some stopped taking their drugs, now convinced the real problem was vein narrowings. Going off one key medication, Tysabri, could have lifelong consequences, as patients who stop and start it again often develop allergies to the drug, Dr. Metz said. Other patients, used to a long string of hopeful "breakthroughs" that turned out to be flops, reacted more cautiously to the news, but had to cope with friends and family convinced they should take advantage of this apparent new remedy, said the neurologist.
"I had patients in tears because they know this is not a treatment yet, not a cure yet, but they have family members pushing them to go to other countries and get things done."
The Winnipeg MS clinic had to stay open two or three hours later than usual many days recently as every patient insisted on a lengthy discussion of the news. "It was presented as very new and exciting research and ready to go," said neurologist Dr. Ruth Ann Marrie, the clinic's director. "Those stories generated an enormous amount of hope."
Some of Dr. Freedman's patients said they were heading to Italy to try to obtain the surgery from Dr. Zamboni's team, including one patient who had fought hard to be part of a clinical trial the Ottawa clinic was planning, then promptly dropped out. U.S. patients mused about taking out loans or selling their homes to pay the $80,000 cost of undergoing the surgery at a California hospital, said Dr. Jack Burks, a New Jersey neurologist and medical advisor to the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America.
"If it doesn't work, after the research is done, they still have MS, but they've lost their house," he noted in an interview. "That's not very good."
The MS Society of Canada also received a flurry of calls from patients and, by that first Monday, had announced it was now offering an unlimited number of grants of up to $200,000 for studies to try to replicate Dr. Zamboni's findings. Yves Savoie, the organization's CEO, denied rumours that major donors had threatened to pull their money if it was not redirected to CCSVI. He acknowledged, though, the speedy decision was unprecedented in the group's history, a response to the widespread interest in Dr. Zamboni's "compellingly simple" treatment.
"You have a researcher who hypothesizes something and dares call it the Liberation procedure," Mr. Savoie noted. "It was already branded as something that sounded like a cure."
Indeed, the medical community seems under intense pressure to embrace the Italian research. One patient advocate in Edmonton, Ashton Embry, suggested on a recent blog posting that neurologists are resisting the ideas only because "they would essentially be cut out of the action when it comes to treating MS patients."
Teresa Woo, 41, from McLennan, Alta., started an online petition calling for government funding of the procedure, and has already gathered 9,000 signatures, believing Dr. Zamboni has found something close to a cure. She became emotional upon viewing the televised report two months ago.
"I started crying and I continued to cry through the whole thing," Ms. Woo recalls.
"These [Canadian neurologists] think they know it all, and they don't: they really answer to the drug companies," she said in an interview. "They should not have the right to tell us we can't do this. It is my right as a human being to try this."
MS specialists, however, call the media irresponsible for failing to take a more skeptical look at the research and prematurely raising the hopes of patients such as Ms. Woo.
The affair underlines generally the perils of journalists failing to carefully scrutinize the claims of medical science, especially in an era when researchers compete aggressively for funding and bragging rights, said Dr. Ian Mitchell, a bio-ethicist at the University of Calgary.
He notes that Dr. Zamboni is an enthusiastic proponent of his own research, was emotionally involved because of his wife's role and has already given his procedure a vivid nickname. "You'd never be allowed to have a drug called Liberationex, it's such an emotive title. Usually, flags would go up," said Dr. Mitchell, who is also a pediatrician. But "[the research] was portrayed uncritically as a modern miracle."
As it turns out, many questions are being raised about Dr. Zamboni's conclusions, and even he has said there is an urgent necessity for outside study of his ideas, telling the Ottawa Citizen in a letter to the editor that patients "need to have clear answers."
The underpinning of the vascular theory is a study that compared 65 MS patients to 235 non-MS controls. Vein narrowing -- or stenosis -- showed up in ultrasound scans of all the multiple sclerosis subjects, and none of the others, he reported.
Canadian experts agree the findings are intriguing, and Mark Haacke, a leading medical physicist and MRI expert at Hamilton's McMaster University, has said the Zamboni hypothesis is a "logical explanation" for how MS works. Others, however, say interpreting scans of such veins is fraught with difficulty, and say there is no proof the vein stenosis, if it does exist, is a cause of MS, as opposed to just being a common, non-causal facet of the disease.
The most controversial evidence, though, is the paper he published last month on the actual Liberation treatment, as provided to 65 patients. The results were mixed. Dr. Zamboni reports there was significant improvement on a scale measuring certain MS symptoms such as leg function in the "relapsing/ remitting" group of patients -- those with the mildest form of the disease, who normally can go into remission for months or years at a time. The more pronounced secondary and primary progressive patients had limited improvement after six months, but none at 18 months, he reported.
A higher proportion of the relapsing/remitting patients were in remission in the 18 months after the surgery than in the year before, but the annual rate of relapses for the group was unchanged. The veins narrowed again in almost half the patients. Dr. Burks calls the outcomes "encouraging," if tentative.
Neurologists outline a string of limitations to the study, though. There was no "control" group of patients who did not get the surgery and whose outcomes could be compared to the Liberation patients. It was not a "blinded" trial, meaning that the patients, and their doctors, all knew they had received the procedure, opening up the possibility of placebo effect. And all the patients continued to take their disease-modifying drugs, making it difficult to separate out what, if anything, improved their condition.
"We have spent a lot of time and effort and energy on what is essentially media hype," Dr. Pierre Duquette, a University of Montreal neurologist, said of the Italian work. "It is essentially a negative study."
Also unusual is Dr. Zamboni's treatment of his own wife, though the actual procedure appeared to have been carried out on her by another doctor. "You'd lose your licence" as a Canadian physician for treating a close family member under anything but emergency conditions, Dr. Marrie said.
Medical history does record cases of game-changing discoveries from outsiders. Peptic ulcers were considered to be a result of acid accumulation in the gut, for instance, until an Australian scientist discovered in the 1980s that most were actually caused by a bacteria. He later won the Nobel prize.
Health science is also replete, though, with apparent breakthroughs that are proven useless or dangerous under more intense study. Neurologists point to the history of so-called EC/IC bypass surgery. Extremely popular in the early 1980s, it involved taking an artery from under the scalp and grafting it onto the brain to circumvent clogged arteries in patients at risk of stroke.
A Canadian-led trial finally put the surgery to rigorous testing, however, and found that it actually made strokes more likely. Almost overnight, the EC/IC clinics that had cropped up across North America closed their doors.
Dr. Tony Traboulsee at the UBC Hospital MS clinic is planning one of a handful of studies that will examine whether the Zamboni theory falls into the same category -- or is a bonafide breakthrough. His team will first look for evidence of the vein narrowing, then study the treatment. A verdict on the Italian scientist's work is expected in a year or two.
"What Dr. Zamboni did was tantalize us," Dr. Traboulsee said. "It was intriguing, but it was not proof."
What is multiple sclerosis? Lesions damage the brain's myelin insulation, sometimes short-circuiting messages from the brain to other parts of the body.
What are the symptoms? A range from fatigue to blurred vision, dizziness, impaired mobility, slurred speech and paralysis.
Cause Most experts believe it is an autoimmune disease, where white blood cells meant to fight disease attack the body itself, causing inflammation that damages the myelin and underlying nerves.
Treatment There are drugs designed to attack the underlying inflammatory triggers of the disease; curb the severity and duration of relapses; and lessen certain symptoms, such as fatigue, spasticity and pain. Their effects are somewhat limited, though, and must be taken by injection or infusion. Research is also under way in Ottawa and elsewhere on using stem cells to rebuild patients' damaged central nervous systems.
News Studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday concluded that the first two oral drugs for MS, Cladribine and fingolimod, are more effective than a placebo and at least one existing drug in reducing the annual rate of attacks and the number of brain lesions visible on MRIs.
Cause Dr. Zambonibelieves the disease is triggered by a narrowing or blockage of the veins that drain blood from the brain, resulting in a back-up of blood and excess iron in the brain, which he suggests causes the inflammation and myelin damage. The phenomenon, termed chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), is unique to MS patients, he says.
Treatment Dr. Zamboniand a California physician have tried different but similar techniques for unblocking the narrowed veins. One involves angioplasty, inflating a tiny balloon inside the affected blood vessels, the other installing a stent -- a permanent device -- that holds the vein open. Dr. Zamboni published a study suggesting the angioplasty treatment -- which he dubbed the Liberation procedure -- improved symptoms for some patients and reduced the percentage who had relapses. Critics note there was no control group with which to compare the therapy and no "blinding" to prevent the risk of a placebo effect.
News Dr. Zamboni and other doctors involved in researching his theories are to appear at a forum on CCSVI at McMaster University on Feb. 7. Organizers say they hope it will become an annual event.
Tom Blackwell, National Post


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I like my blog stats. I'm always interested to see where people are coming from or what search words have led them to my little site. I am usually grateful to anyone and everyone who has linked up to my blog and I am quick to investigate a referrer when I'm getting more than a handful of hits coming in from a particular place.
So, when I saw I was getting visitors from a bulletin board on the America's Test Kitchen website, I got curious.
I wish I hadn't.
It was a discussion linking back to my rhubarb crumb cake post (which seemed odd, how did they even find that one particular post) with the subject of: Okay, guys, am I the only one who thinks this photo is great?
At first I thought she was referring to my rhubarb and/or cake photos, but it turned out she was referring to my blog's header. Me and my red patent shoes and my red mixing bowl.
There were a few nondescript responses. And then the original poster said something that left me feeling like ice. I think it's a good thing that I don't have a photographic memory because it's probably best I don't remember the comment exactly. Instead, I'll give you a summary: It looks as if this woman and her "pleasantly plump" calves (because that I do remember) has eaten everything before it could go in the oven and has had to lie down to digest it all.
And then, further down, another comment that struck even deeper.
No (Original Poster), when I opened the link and saw that across the top, I thought "Wa-huh? Did she get murdered while she was stirring her cookie dough? Or did she go into a diabetic coma from too much sugar? Or is she trying to look alluring with that red plastic bowl from Target and the red plastic shoes from Payless?" I couldn't quite figure out the point of the picture.
It certainly does not make me want to eat….her cooking.
I felt ill to read that.
I have long known the Internet to be a place where meanness spreads easily. After all, I've read the comments on some of my articles for the Herald. People are quick to criticize or make mean comments. Anonymity, no doubt, plays a significant role in how people choose to comport themselves online.
And I know there is a valuable lesson in here about paying attention to the 99 people who like you and ignoring the one critic.
But here's the problem.
These comments from these women confirmed all the things I feared people thought about me.
The original poster later took down her comments, editing the first post to say she had never intended to offend anyone. My initial reaction was to be appreciative that she seemed sorry. But, after a few minutes, I realized that her edited comment was just as strange. How did she not think people would be offended? Did she believe her comments were being made in a vacuum and the object of her criticisms would not find out? Likely, yes. But she was mistaken.
More than 60 people visited my site because of that bulletin board discussion. I have no idea what the others thought, but I can safely say that I'd prefer to get my traffic some other way.
And yes, a small part of me thinks they would probably be less mean if they had a nice slice of cake once in a while.
So, on that note, (she says, clapping her hands together), that is enough time wasted on that. Let's eat something delicious!
For elective choices in Grade 8 at high school (because there was no junior high in Vancouver and I'll spare you the woes of being a 12-year-old girl going to school with 18-year-old boys who would never look at a kid like me) one could decide between food/wood/metal and home ec (food and sewing). I had no interest in working around giant saws that would probably take my finger off, so I chose home ec.
I don't remember many recipes worth saving, except baby cheesecakes that used vanilla wafers for a crust and these things called Dream Bars. I kept the cheesecake recipe but have no idea where the one for the bars went, which is too bad because I think about them pretty often. (As in, more often than really is reasonable to reminisce about a baked good.) They were sort of chewy-gooey with a shortbread type crust and a sweet layer on top. I think there were pecans involved. And chocolate chips. And that's about all I remember. I've googled until the cows come home, but nothing that calls itself a "dream bar" is actually what I remember.
And then I saw Dolly Bars. They seemed a reasonable facsimile and, therefore, worth a try.
I found this recipe on Smitten Kitchen who adapted it from Homesick Texan. I didn't notice the discrepancy in the amount of sweetened condensed milk until after it became clear this recipe was a bit of a failure for me. A little more online research showed that almost every recipe calls for an entire can of the stuff, while the one I used called for about 1/3 of a cup. My toppings didn't really stay stuck to the graham cracker base as a result. Still tasty, but a bit of a failure. So, I'm going to try this again and use the entire can.
Dolly Bars
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter, cut into large pieces
- 1 1/2 cups graham crackers crumbs (about 8 graham crackers, pulsed in a food processor)
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- 1 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
- 1 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt butter in microwave in heatproof bowl until just melted when stirred. Add graham cracker crumbs. Mix and then press evenly into the bottom of 8×8 baking pan.
Layer coconut, pecans, butterscotch and chocolate chips on top of graham cracker base. Pour sweetened condensed milk over whole mixture.
Bake in oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the top is light brown.

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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." — Frederick Douglass
Children sometimes experience difficulty in their lives, just like adults. They often lack skills, insight and a developmental level that would allow them to overcome whatever is affecting them. Children and adolescents are still learning how to develop their verbal abilities and communication.
Children can experience depression, mood swings and anxiety, much like adults. However, signs often manifest differently in children than in adults. A child friendly professional is one who recognizes what these signs mean for a child or teen.
Psychotherapy for children and adolescents mandates more creative forms of therapy outside of traditional 'talk' therapy. While talking may be appropriate for some instances, other methods of communication are far more effective with children and adolescents, who are not simply little adults.
A therapist with focused experience working with children and adolescents use their knowledge of human development to work with the child on an appropriate level. Other means of communication are necessary in order to hear the needs of the child, including play, pretending and art.
With therapy, children may learn more effective ways of communicating feelings, how to manage their negative emotions or to improve their relationships with others.
Play therapy is a method of therapy that has become widely popular as an effective therapy method for children. Children are able to honestly express and represent their feelings through play.
Play therapy uses specific techniques and toys that are carefully chosen for the therapy session. In addition, play therapists undergo training and supervision leading to a specific certification in play therapy.
During the first therapy session, a licensed clinician will meet with you, the caregiver, as well as the child. The caregiver will be asked to provide background information on the child and family as well as assess the need for psychotherapy. Goals for therapy will be set by the family and child.
Parents should ask the following questions about psychotherapy:
Whyis psychotherapy being recommended?
What results can I expect?
How long will my child be involved in therapy?
Will the therapist be meeting with just my child or with the entire family?
How much do psychotherapy sessions cost?
How will we (the parents) be informed about our child's progress and how can we help?
How soon can we expect to see some changes?
Excerpts from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
To make an appointment for an assessment, call us at (815) 377-2636.
Do you know a teen who is depressed? We are currently taking sign-ups for a therapy group. Click here for more information.


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A pair of new technologies, one proven at several molders in Europe and a second just now ready for commercialization, is said to improve on current gas-assist injection molding techniques with up to 30% faster cycles and up to 90% reduced downtime for maintenance of molds and gas injectors. Together, these two technologies are dubbed eGAIM, or Enhanced Gas-Assist Injection Molding by Linde North America, Inc., Murray Hill, N.J., a major supplier of industrial gases. Linde developed eGAIM in close cooperation with a German molder, Engel Formenbau und Spritzguss GmbH (no relation to Engel, the injection machinery supplier.)
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Engel started working with Linde eight years ago to improve molding of ABS and PC/ABS refrigerator handles. Two years ago, Engel applied the new know-how to automotive parts such as PP grab handles. Engel's initial motivation was to shorten cycle times of appliance handles. Even with gas assist, these were still thick-walled parts. Despite internal gas channels ranging from 10-12 in. to as long as 3 ft or more, the injected gas remained trapped for the length of the cycle and quickly became quite hot.
The solution was to cool parts not just from the outside, as usual, but from the inside as well by continuously flushing gas through the channel. Linde recommends this flushing approach as a completely dry and simpler alternative to water injection, which also cools the part from inside.
Flushing the inside of the part requires a secondary gas injector. Engel realized an immediate improvement in cycle time of 20-30% by flushing nitrogen through the handles. Engel also was one of the first molders to benefit from Linde's new Presus N10 liquid-nitrogen pressure booster. It can pressurize nitrogen from a bulk tank up to 4500 psi for gas-assist molding and at flow rates up to 4600 scf/hr, while using up to 90% less energy than standard gas compressors. What's more, the Presus N10 operates completely oil-free, unlike other compressors, so no oil is introduced into the part or mold. (The Presus N10 was shown at NPE2012 in Orlando, Fla. See our August Keeping Up With Technology section.)
Gas-assist molders like Engel, that already have a optimized nitrogen supply system can continue to use it with eGAIM. But for new installations, especially for more complex mold geometries and larger parts with big gas channels, Linde recommends a new technology using CO2 instead. That's because denser CO2 has much higher heat-removal capacity than nitrogen. CO2 is ususally used when there is no second gas injector available, achieving similar cycle-time reduction as nitrogen flushing. It can also be used to perform flushing, which can speed cycles by another 20-30% in some cases, Linde says. (Linde also offers a Presus C pressure booster for CO2.)
The second main element of eGAIM is the just-now commercialized technique of flushing the mold cavity with inert gas immediately before plastic injection. When melt enters the cavity, it pushes residual air through the gas injector back into the gas pressure-control module. After the cavity fills, the next step is to inject gas. However, there may be 6-8 ft of supply hoses filled in part with residual air from the cavity, so the first gas entering the cavity is air, not nitrogen (or CO2). At high temperatures and pressures, this air oxidizes the polymer, producing dark, viscous byproducts that can clog injector nozzles and invade the rest of the gas supply system.
The solution is to flush the cavity with a shot of inert gas before the melt is injected. This generally requires a separate injector from the one that hollows out the part with gas. Engel, which runs 24/6, found that "inerting" the cavity prior to injection reduced its maintenance downtime by 90%. For one part, maintenance was reduced from 1 hr every 8 hr, or a total of about 18 hr a week, to just 1 hr a week. Not only did that mean more machine uptime and reduced labor cost, but also reducing the number of startups and the scrap involved in getting back into stable production.
Injection Molding at K 2013: Doing More with Less
More productivity with less energy consumption and capital investment; more operations in the machine or manufacturing cell with less time, labor, energy, and capital—these were the common themes of injection molding exhibits at October's K 2013 show.
External Gas Molding Squeezes Out Sinks
External gas injection is finally getting molders' attention as a means to improve part surface quality. Two different approaches are available for licensing. Here's a look at the processes, the potential benefits, and the commercial players.
New Machines & Processes Unveiled By Wittmann Battenfeld
At an open house in Kottingbrunn, Austria, last month, Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH showed what it has been doing to make good on its pledge to reinvigorate the venerable Battenfeld name and its reputation for innovation.


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Sandra Bullock Lost Her Drug Hookup, Kanye West Cheated on Kim Kardashian + More In This Week's Tabloids
We read In Touch, National Enquirer, Us Weekly, OK! and Star, so you don't have to. Where do we line up for our Nobel?
This week, Bruce Jenner is charging Kris Jenner for every moment of annoyance she's caused, Paris Jackson is mostly just upset that people think her hair style is a cry for help, Kate Middleton and Kim Kardashian had a baby bump showdown on pay-per-view, Kanye West found a bikini-clad port in a storm -- and all kinds of other really real stuff you'd have to read to believe.
In Touch
It's been a minute or two since we've talked about Kris Kardashian's $200 million divorce from Bruce Jenner, and we've been losing sleep wondering what was going on (oh, like you haven't).
But now? We can rest easy knowing that Bruce has moved out and is getting his revenge after 22 years of torture. What about all the years of torture we've suffered at the hands of this family? At least Bruce got rich in the deal.
And speaking of money (as she often does), Kris Kardashian has a greedy plan to cash in on Kim's baby. Our suspicion: She's going to steal and sell the infant and simply replace her Indiana Jones-style with an expensive handbag. Kris is sure Kim will never know the difference once the purse is filled to the same weight with a variety of lip glosses. Ooh, shiny.
Meanwhile, Amanda Bynes has a new obsession: She wants a hookup with Miley Cyrus' man. We think she's talking about Liam Hemsworth, but since she's been a little off lately, she may very well see people the rest of us don't. We'd like to ask her if she knows the muffin man. The muffin man. The muffin man.
In "she did what?!" news, Farrah Abraham revealed she got another boob job. We can't really blame her, though. Painted orange, the last set could've doubled as hazard cones.
National Enquirer
In a shocking six-month downward spiral (indicated by going from long to short hair because only crazy people do that), Paris Jackson went from a $300 million heiress to a psych ward. And of course the National Enquirer knows what really drove her to overdose and slit her wrists.
What, you thought just because she's a child, she'd be spared their morbid speculation? Are you new here or something?
Oh, in an Enquirer exclusive, thieves robbed the $590 million Powerball winner. After investigating the matter, police realized the lucky lotto player had mistaken the IRS for petty criminals and assumed that 40 percent of the winnings had been stolen -- when really it had just been taken for tax payments. (Actual thieves, on the other hand, have more of an honor code. They take 20 percent, tops.)
Whitney Houston's daughter is homeless. Bobbi Kristina's life has fallen apart since she was booted from her home after fights and gun threats. We don't have to worry about her yet, though -- her hair is still long.
Did you know Sandra Bullock was caught in a drug nightmare? Seems ever since she split from Jesse James, she hasn't had access to her dealer – who took James' side in the whole mess before really, who's the better long-term investment here. And since that goody goody Melissa McCarthy was no help on the set of their new movie, Bullock is now forced to consider filming her next project in Amsterdam.
Us Weekly
Forget your basketball brackets because Us Weekly has the kind of competition we've all been thirsting for: Kate versus Kim. Battle of the baby bumps! The magazine believes both women are due the same day – although Kimmy K beat the Duchess to the punch with an early delivery over the weekend – so now it's a royals versus reality showdown.
The magazine goes inside the exciting last month, but - unless you have a time machine and access to a bookie - that's lost its luster since we already know the Kimye Babye gets here first.
Kristin Cavallari doesn't have a baby due or anything, but she tries to extend her 15 minutes by taking us inside her country wedding. Of course, much like when a baby is born, it's all been done before and we're already bored with all of the actual weddings we have to see in person this summer, so pics of hers are no help.
We do get an inside look at Angie's sweet gift for Brad. But really, Brangelina has kids, careers and all kinds of money, so we're not sure what she could possibly give him. Unless Kris Jenner and a kidnapped baby are involved.
And just as the National Enquirer did, Us Weekly knows why Paris Jackson broke down: They're attributing it to her family battle. We say that if she gets that upset over a Mario Kart tournament, maybe she should spend some time in a special hospital.
This week, OK! brings us exclusive baby joy that will instead bore us to tears.
They know whose baby is in danger, because some people don't seem to have good parenting skills. They also tell us who's getting married and who's already splitting, and they really should find a better way of phrasing this stuff because all we can think is that it's just not right for unborn babies to be married and/or dealing with their own divorce drama already. At least wait until they're on solid food first.
Syntax issues aside, there's also more shocking baby news: Jennifer Love Hewitt is "so excited." Halle Berre says Nahla wants a sister. Fergie has a surprise gift for Josh Duhammel. J.Lo is having Casper's baby (ghost or dancer, you pick). And Jessica Simpson has made a big decision.
All we know at this point is that we're never drinking the water in Hollywood again. Something has to be causing this outbreak of the pregnants.
And while we aren't supposed to care since it doesn't involve a baby (well, aside from all the fake ones the tabloids keep trying to put in her), Jennifer Aniston has set a wedding date for her nuptials with Justin Theroux. We're happy for the couple who seems so ready to finally tie the knot, but mainly, we're just exceptionally excited that we don't have to look at pictures of their nursery.
Star magazine has a bombshell this week -- and, in light of the recent birth, what a bombshell it is: Kanye cheated on Kim. His other woman actually talked to Star. Of course, Kim's alter-ego Pregnant Kim will be devastated, but since she no longer exists, we don't have to worry about her feelings anymore.
Of course Vain Kim and Original Kim are still around and they'll probably be a little upset, but they're preoccupied with losing the baby weight right now anyway. Also, apparently we now know the answer to the question "will Kim dump him before the baby is born."
We had a chance this week to take a peek at 10 of the most expensive celebrity homes, so we'll save you some trouble and let you in on the secrets: They're big! They're clean! They're opulent! They have pools and marble! They look fancy! There's a lot of glass and some nice landscaping! We're guessing they smell good too, but it wasn't a scratch-n-sniff spread so that's pure speculation.
Poor troubled Paris Jackson is on the cover of yet another tabloid. If what she wanted was less attention, she certainly went about it all wrong. Anyway, at this point, her mom is fighting the Jackson family for custody of the hurting teen, and we're sure this sudden display of maternal concern has nothing to do with money. Shame on you for even suggesting it.
And, as we mentioned before, Sandra Bullock is experiencing heartbreak in a family drug shocker. Exclamation!
We're treating this as a "choose your own adventure," so here's what we've decided: A Walgreens opened across the street from her nearby CVS, causing the CVS to go out of business and now the Walgreens won't honor the points she'd earned on her CVS card. Nobody wants to pay full price for prescription medications, you guys. So we're officially Team Bullock on this.


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This 18th century woodcut of a pilgrim and the cosmos is taken from the French astronomer Camille Flammarion's book, Atmosphere: Meterologie Populaire (Paris 1888). Flammarion, considered a genius, was known as an astronomer and prolific writer & lecturer on topics as wide ranging as climatology and solar cycles. Late in life he became interested in spiritualism and life on other planets. He believed that Mars had once been inhabited speculated that gas from Halley's Comet could damage the Earth's atmosphere.
A cult hero in France, his work remains of great interest to scientists, physicists and free thinkers. He wrote, " The stars will continue to shine after the extinction of our sun, as they already shone before our existence. When there will no longer be on the earth a sole concern to contemplate, the constellations will reign again in the noise as they reigned before the appearance of man on this tiny globule. There are stars whose light shone some millions of years before we arrived … The luminous rays that we receive actually then departed from their bosom before the time of the appearance of man on the earth. The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe's history." For more on Flammarion visit these sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion
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The following is an article I wrote for the newspaper that I freelance for, Creative Loafing Tampa. There were plenty more of my favorite food trucks that I could have added to this list, but I unfortunately had the restraint of a 650 word count. Check back later for more musings on the fabulous food trailers and my culinary adventures here in Austin, Texas!
The food truck revolution was late rolling up to the Tampa Bay area, but here in Austin, Texas, it has its roots firmly planted and is one of the city's main attractions — besides the amazing music scene, of course. Like most things in Texas, the food truck community is big here — one of the biggest in the country, actually, right up there with Chicago and San Diego as the top spots to find mobile eateries. Having moved to Austin from the Bay area almost a year ago, I've missed out on the great new food trailers I keep reading about that have been popping up in Tampa and St. Pete, but luckily I can get a taste of trailer food here — and plenty of it.
Like their compatriots in Tampa Bay, Austin's food trucks aren't just serving up hot dogs and hamburgers. Fusion food, ethnic eats, American diner classics, gourmet ice cream sandwiches and doughnuts and so much more are available at the "around 1,350" food trucks and trailers in and around Austin as of today. (That's according to MSNBC.com, which based its count on the number of permits given out by the Austin/Travis County Department of Health.)
Since there are way too many rolling restaurants to sample during the South By Southwest (SXSW) music/film/interactive festival going on in downtown Austin this week, I've compiled a list of a few of my many top spots that had either fantastic fare or free munchies (which are not mutually exclusive in all cases). So read on and pay some of these trailers and restaurants a visit the next time you're deep in the heart of Texas.


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My daughter Julie said that she loves the posts I make when I have "Charlie Inspired cards." I must admit they are fun to make because he comes over with the cutest clothes. One day when Gracie (our granddaughter) came over she couldn't wait to show me the cute shirt her grandma Fran gave her and how I needed to take her picture. She knew eventually I would get to making a card that was inspired by her shirt.
How fun!! This is Gracie…. and…
Here is a close up of her shirt…
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This looks like it would make a great Valentine card. Maybe Gracie would like to give it to her Pre-K teacher next year. Hmmm…
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Cute card Christi! when I saw her top that was the same set I thought of. :) Love the inside. I often forget about that.
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Over the last few months, there have been a lot of rumors about HASA changing its housing policies, including word from CBOs and case managers that leases for one-bedroom apartments were no longer being accepted, making it dangerously difficult for people living with HIV/AIDS in the city to find housing.
Rather than breaking down the doors to HASA and staging a revolt, Housing Works invited John Ruscillo -- Director of Housing Services at HASA, and Sharon Jordan -- Deputy Director of Eligibility at HASA, to speak to Housing Works' staff, clients, and other community members to help dispel some of the mystery -- and frustration -- about any changes HASA has made to its policies.
And so yesterday, John and Sharon hosted a town hall at Housing Works' Downtown Brooklyn location to discuss what exactly is new about HASA's policies.
The latest change?
Single HASA clients without children are now only eligible for studio apartments. This change marks HASA's fourth policy change in just over two years, and is the same policy that HASA Deputy Commissioner Jacqueline Dudley suggested was just "a rumor" in a public meeting just months previous. Previous changes include HASA's sudden announcement that they were only going to pay 50% of brokers' fees no longer paying a security deposit, providing only a security "voucher," and lastly, instituting a substance abuse screening policy into housing eligibility and arrears applications. Under this latest policy, dubbed "studios for singles," HASA hopes to find studios for clients that cost, on average, around $1,000.
Understandably, the case managers, CBO representatives, and HASA clients in the room erupted in shock at this hopeful (or unrealistic) figure. With this new "studios for singles" policy, finding and securing housing for HASA clients is now as much of an uphill battle as it can possibly be, asking people to find a cheap studio -- a feat in and of itself -- while also only being able to pay with a rental assistance program and with only half of the brokers' fee.
And, like the previous two HASA policy changes, the "studios for singles" policy went into effect without any outreach describing the change and without any community input. In fact, John and Sharon stated that this change was only conveyed internally to HASA staff, and no attempt was made to relay this information to the thousands of case managers and hundreds of thousands people living with HIV/AIDS across the city.
The backbone of the policy, however counterintuitively, appears to reside in HASA's case-by-case financial assessment (CBCFA) policy, which allows clients and their case managers to appeal the need for apartments that are one-bedrooms or are past a particular price point.
"For instance," Sharon Jordan said, "if a client needs a home attendant or live-in nurse at home, then they should apply for an one-bedroom apartment and explain on the application why this particular apartment is necessary for them. That's what CBCFA is for -- to make sure that we understand what it is you're asking for and why you need it."
She went onto explain that there are three HASA staff members who oversee the CBCFA requests, and that ultimately, they are looking for the best deal for the clients. "Listen, I am not going to put a client in an apartment that I wouldn't live in myself. When we assess applications for housing, we are looking at a number of factors when we approve or reject them. Does the client have income? Has the client moved every year? Is the client applying for an apartment in a building with HPD violations? Is the client reapplying for maybe a more expensive apartment but has also lived there for multiple years? These are all things that we are going to consider when case managers are submitting applications to us." She also stated that applications were more likely to be accepted for a two-year leases and apartments that include heat and hot water.
What's more, John Ruscillo stated that despite this new HASA policy, they will not be evicting people that currently live in one-bedroom apartments. Ultimately, both HASA spokespeople stressed that if a client applies for a particular apartment and is denied, that the client and case manager can always "reapply for re-approval."
While the Town Hall was certainly a good step in creating a productive dialogue between HASA and the city's AIDS community, many left the town hall with more concern than relief.
"With this new housing requirement," Housing Works' Care Coordinator Kristin Goodwin said, "I'm concerned that it will be harder to find apartments that HASA will approve, effectively lengthening a clients' search for housing, and potentially, the longer they will have to stay in SROs or other emergency shelter. I'm unconvinced that the 'studios for singles' policy will save any money and may in fact cost the city considerably more in the long term."
In addition, many case managers and clients at the town hall expressed frustration that this policy change was not publically relayed on April 1st, citing all of the time and energy that could have been saved had HASA been open about the change from the beginning. One case manager asked to see the policy in writing, and was told that she would not be able to at this time.
While Housing Works thanks John Ruscillo and Sharon Jordan for coming to talk to the community, it remains clear that concerns over HASA's lack of communication may be very well-founded.


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Sydney's Taronga Zoo is now home to baby meerkats Zanzibar and Nairobi, who are the first meerkats born at the zoo in nine years. Although they are only a month old, the pups are already eating solid food. In the video you can see them happily gobbling up some grubs.
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Is anyone planning on watching this? http://www.cbs.com/shows/fall_premieres_2011/They're supposed to have some previews.
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Drifting is refers to a driving technique and to a motorsport where the driver intentionally over steers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels through turns, while maintaining vehicle control and a high exit speed. A car is drifting when the rear slip angle is greater than the front slip angle prior to the corner apex, and the front wheels are pointing in the opposite direction to the turn (e.g. car is turning left, wheels are pointed right or vice versa), and the driver is controlling these factors. As a motor sport, professional drifting competitions are held worldwide.
Or maybe the drifting was used for introduction/spiel purposes? Like in TAR 15.
There are a lot of videos in You tube about drifting in Indonesia. They mainly use the Lippo Karawaci street circuit in Tangerang, which is about 40Km west of Jakarta but very far from Yogyakarta. But that is an orginised circuit with security bars, spectator seats etc. The images we have so far with the Mustangs look like a normal road.here is a video of this circuit.http://www.youtube.com/v/IddHi2sEJmg
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Texas State seniors are invited to attend the traditional ring ceremony at the end of each long semester. During the ceremony in Strahan Coliseum, family and friends watch as students are given their official Texas State rings. Students dip their rings in the waters of the San Marcos River that flow in a fountain at the ceremony.


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Liver soup dumplings
1/2 onion, diced very small
2 T chicken fat or butter
2-3 T chopped parsley (or 1-2 t dried)
1-3 chicken livers
2 eggs, beaten
salt and pepper
1/4 t baking soda
1 T flour mix
5 T gf breadcrumbs
Heat the chicken fat or butter in a small pan. Cook the onion with the parsley until the onion is softened, then dump into a bowl and set aside. Smash the chicken livers with a knife, pulling the meat away from the casing. Mash one more time with a knife and then stir into cooling onions. Mix in eggs, and season with salt and pepper. Whisk together baking soda, flour, and breadcrumbs, then stir into the egg mixture. Let the dough sit for half an hour on the counter (cover with a plate or plastic wrap if you have inquisitive animals that sneak onto the counter).
Bring a pot of broth or water to boil, then turn down to a gentle simmer. With wet hands, roll the dough into balls a little smaller than a ping pong ball. Carefully slide the balls into the simmering liquid, cover most of the way, then let simmer for 15-20 minutes, until all the balls are floating. Cut one in half and taste if you aren't sure. Serve in chicken broth.


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The brand new virtual world of Milkfrost - formally (milkfrost.multiply.com)
The reason why this blog is created is because Multiply.com is shutting down & all posts will be removed. Some posts here are back-dated from Aug 2004 - Aug 2012! I'm just doing a screen-shot & re-posting slowly cos it ain't easy to import every single photo. Therefore, only thumbnails are available for viewing, which also explains the white background & the little note at the end.
Friday, 30 September 2005
Karaoke @ K-Box Marina
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Friday, 23 September 2005
*Pearl's Birthday
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Friday, 16 September 2005
Labelle's birthday
Simple dinner with the birthday boy
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Wednesday, 14 September 2005
Karaoke @ K-Box Marina
KTV Session
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Armenian DNA Project (Family Tree DNA)
Open to all Armenians. The Armenian DNA Project is an important resource for Armenians researching their family history as well as their deep ancestry through genetic testing. DNA testing can be a valuable tool for people with different surnames in determining whether they are genetic cousins, particularly considering the destruction of many Armenian genealogical records and the fact Armenian surnames were often based on the father
For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the Azores Geographical DNA Project. Archives: browse or search.
Cape Coloured DNA Ancestry Project - South Africa (Facebook)
A genetic DNA ancestry project devoted to the millions of South Africans (historically known as Cape Coloured) whose ancestry stems from the African slave trade to South Africa. This project is open to the public and anyone who wishes to test. Our prominent Haplogroups are: yDNA - A, E, E1, E1b1a, E3a // mtdna - L0d, L2a, L3d, L5, K, M.Sponsored by Family Tree DNA.
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The Carpatho-Rusyn Heritage DNA Project welcomes all males and females of Carpatho-Rusyn(C-R) heritage, a distinct group of people that live or once lived in portions of the Carpathian Mountain range. Their region is comprised of what is now South-Eastern Poland, Transcarpathia, Northwestern Slovakia, and a small pocket in Vojvoidina. Their region, called Galicia, was ruled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1772 until 1918. Starting in 1880 many C-R people immigrated to the United States and Canada. Those in SE Poland {Lemkos} suffered various misfortunes. Some were sent to the Talerhof concentration camp during 1914-1917, and post WW-II most Lemkos in SE Poland were involuntarily relocated to Western Ukraine between 1944-1947 - the remaining Lemko population was forcibly removed between 1947-1948 and relocated to Western Poland during the Vistula Action. Carpatho-Rusyns are sometimes known as Carpatho-Russian, Carpatho-Ukrainian, Rusnak, Ruthene, Ruthenian, Uhro-Rusyn--all relate to their traditional association with the East Slavic world of the Rus'. In Poland they refer to themselves as Lemko/ Lemko Rusyn.
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People in the News – September/October 2008
San Antonio-based security electronics integrator MCS Detention promoted Jim Gabel to president. Formerly vice president of sales and marketing, Gabel has more than 27 years of experience in the electronic security and detention industry.
Executive committee members for RBF Consulting announced the promotion of Richard Carrell, P.E., to senior vice president of land development in the firm's Irvine office. As part of the promotion, Carrell will also join the corporate management committee. He brings 24 years of experience in land development to the position, with a focus on engineering design, project management, project scheduling and value engineering.
RBF also appointed S. Robert Kallenbaugh, P.E., and James E. McDonald, P.E., co-CEOs. Kallenbaugh and McDonald, formerly presidents of the firm, will succeed Robert W. Bein who is stepping down from the position of CEO.
Tom Latourette joined Building Leaders Inc. as vice president of sales and marketing. In his new position, Latourette will oversee the growth of the company's presentation schedule, marketing and sales efforts and will work toward expanding consulting and counseling services. Prior to joining Building Leaders, Latourette held several sales positions for Simonton Windows and Fypon.
Robert Hiller was rehired by Breckenridge Group, an architectural firm based in Tucson, Ariz., to serve as a designer at the firm's department of defense studio. Hiller previously worked for the firm for eight years. He was most recently a project manager for a local architectural firm. Hiller specializes in green historic preservation and rehabilitation projects.
Ricci Greene Associates, a justice design and planning firm based in Lexington, Ky., appointed Stacey Wiseman as a designer. Wiseman's responsibilities include the management of daily activities and coordination for the firm's planning and programming for projects.
The board of directors for New York-based design firm Perkins Eastman announced several senior-level promotions. The following were promoted to principal: Emily J. Kelly, AIA, Mitchell Levy, AIA, LEED AP, James L. Sawyer, AIA, and Charles F. Williams. Several employees were promoted to associate principal: Maureen Carley, Assoc. IIDA, Carmelo Crisfulli, RA, Jay P. Epstein, AIA. Marc F. Goldstein, AIA, Kim K. Lam, Gilles LeGorrec, John Amanat, AIA, LEED AP, Charles Cannizzaro, Danile DeBoo and Alejandro Knopoff.
Trivers Associates, an architectural firm based in St. Louis, hired David Lott and Andrew Rider as architectural designers Lott has experience as an intern for M.S.T.S.D Architects and as a junior designer for Leo A. Daly Architects. Rider is a 2008 graduate of the University of Kansas, with a master of architecture degree.
Cannon Design, an architectural engineering and planning firm, announced Daniel Green, AIA, LEED AP, was promoted to associate vice president. Green is the New York leader for quality assurance of all project documents. He has more than 22 years of experience in project management.
McDonough Bolyard Peck Inc., a construction consulting firm based in Fairfax, Va., named Robin Kelley as controller for the firm's accounting department. Kelley has more than 15 years of experience and previously worked for a federal contractor.
Jackie Heinrichs returned to Wagner Companies as manager of production control. In her position, Heinrichs will lead the coordination among sales, estimating, warehouse and manufacturing functions to schedule and deliver products to meet customer needs. She is returning to the company after a two-year absence, during which time she served as project manager for Everbrite Inc.
The company also announced that Connie Knaak was promoted to manager of employee development and training. Her responsibilities will include the establishment and standardization of training and skill development throughout the company. Knaak has served in various capacities at Wagner for the past 20 years, including receivables, sales, sales management and production control.
Gerflor, a manufacturer of vinyl resilient floor coverings, announced the appointment of Tim Sweeney as regional vice president for the company's western division, Carl Brester as Wisconsin sales representative and Lisa Kaplan as Chicago area representative. Sweeney will manage and support the sales team network through sales calls, lead generation follow-up, product training and exhibition expertise. Brester and Kaplan bring several years of flooring sales experience to their positions and will work to further extend the company's presence in their respective areas.
Varco Pruden Buildings Inc., a manufacturer of pre-engineered metal buildings based in Memphis, Tenn., named Chad Gentry the new district manager for Alabama and western Florida. Gentry will be responsible for working with the firm's network of builders in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. He will assist with marketing, training and building solutions.
TCP Inc., manufacturer of energy-efficient lighting products, hired Charles Gallagher as vice president of operations and Jeffrey Bristol as director of retail sales. Peter Weller was promoted to general manager. Gallagher will oversee the supply chain, distribution and assembly of ecoVations, TCP's specification fixture division. Bristol now manages daily and long-term strategies for TCP retail. Weller will lead TCP's specification fixture division at ecoVations.
Tnemec Company, a manufacturer for industrial and specialized architectural markets, promoted Joe Davis to vice president of Technical Service. Davis has experience with industrial high-performance coating applications, failure analysis and facility coating evaluation.
Temple Promoted to President, CEO of Multimedia Telesys
Multimedia Telesys Inc. promoted Nick Temple to president and CEO of the company, which designs, manufactures and installs video arraignment and video visitation systems. Formerly executive vice president of MTI, Temple is an IT design specialist with 25 years of experience creating networks and video visitation systems for correctional facilities.
"Nick is well known and respected throughout the corrections industry," says Tom Hesse, chairman of the board for MTI. "He has helped MTI accomplish its sales and engineering initiatives."
Temple designs unified system platforms for video visitation with multiple remote sites. He recently installed such a system at a county facility in Arizona to offer satellite public visitation areas to reduce travel time for inmate visitation.
MTI plans to expand its video visitation capability beyond the county level to offer state and national coverage.
"We have recognized this market need for the last five years and have already installed our systems in Federal Bureau of Prison sites," Temple says. "Now video visitation can be city-, county-, state- and nationwide."


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- Mobile World Congress, Hall 5 Stand G100, 25-26 February 2013
- All in one multi touch and multi touchless technology up to 5cm away from the screen
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensation technology is a new high performance multi touch and multi touchless technology introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that enables control of mobile device functions in both touch and in three dimensions using just finger and hand movements. It is thought to be up to 100 times more precise than current technologies, and can realize real 'hovering' functions in mobiles and a multitude of applications like gaming, pad TV, automotive, medical industries plus many others.
It also allows the developer community to invent a multitude of new applications that transform two-dimensional environments into complete 3D experiences, enabling a new way of interaction. Sensation technology frees the designer's creativity – it can be applied to planed, curved, or complex geometries and can also be combined with LED lighting allowing any variety of designs and features.
By introducing the z-dimension at the touch screen, it is possible to fundamentally change the way people interact with devices and change the way people do things. This extra dimension enables the measurement and sensing of multiple fingertips at up to 5cm away from the screen.
The benefits of this new Sensation technology mean that it is possible to enable proximity, depth and surface sensing on any surface of any device using multi touch functions, multi touchless functions, xyz fingertip sensing, multi hovering functions up to 5cm from the screen and 3D gesture control
It enables any device to be used as a notebook with any pen or with fingers, even if the user is wearing gloves. In addition, the ability to easily zoom in on the keys makes it possible to use a keyboard even without the need for glasses.
This technology is considered 100 times more precise than current technologies, and so can realize real hovering functions. The possibilities of what Sensation technology enables are limitless – some examples of what can be done include:
A short video demo is available at the following link:
Editor's notes
1) Sensation technology background and capability
After having developed a capacitive camera which today equips thousands of medical machines, Fogale Nanotech's researchers looked at how it might be possible to measure the data of fingers which are at more than 5 centimeters away from a screen, and visualize gestures at 8-10 centimeters. This would create a real technological breakthrough in the touch screen world for the mobile industry. Sensation technology was the result: it makes interaction between human and electronic apparatus more natural with more precise and evolved gestures; it also enables a true implementation of both multi touch and multi touchless technology.
Sensation is a unique capacitive technology protected by 30 patents, allowing measurement of the ultra-low absolute capacitance created between the sensor and the fingertips. Similar to the concept of pixels in a camera, Sensation uses a matrix of electrodes distributed over the panel. Each electrode measures an absolute distance and a specific algorithm reconstructs in real time the 3D shape of all objects (fingers, stylus, hands) in proximity of the panel.
2) Company background
The new Sensation technology is based on 30 years of research in capacitive measurement research. In 1983, three researchers decided to create a company to channel their research in capacitive measurement instruments to create new innovative, leading edge high performance products. Driven by a combination of inventiveness and scientific rigour, the company became the partner of choice for industry and research labs for finding solutions to previously insoluble challenges.
The company rapidly established a reputation as the global specialist in capacitive measurement technology. In the spirit of the original company, the company's 50 researchers and engineers shared the founders' innovative spirit and the technical expertise that has become so characteristic of the company. They are constantly learning, developing and producing the inventions that will meet the needs of tomorrow.
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