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I have a few costumes ideas that I am not going to use or need. Please understand that these drawings are now about 7 years old, if there are others similar, well, that�s how it goes for creative thinkers. Over the past few years some ideas were presented to individual costume makers that I felt might benefit from them. I will explain each one as I go. �If you need an idea for your haunt I would be happy to help out, as I welcome the challenge.
Costume 1:
Broken Neck. The picture in the upper right is just a prosthetic idea. Any actor can tilt their head to the side and walk around like a zombie. The neck has an open wound as if cut from a knife. In a perfect world, part of the spine would be hanging out.
Hello Dolly. Below in the picture, is the first of a series of a dolly effects (I won�t include the rest as you get the jist of them all here). The actor walks through the parking lot pushing a dolly that holds a garbage can on it. In this drawing it shows fireworks shooting out but, you can have pneumatic props pop out or another live actor. I designed a similar illusion for a magician many years back but that version used a garbage can. That can had a cut-out door in the back to let an assistant crawl in through the dolly and then into the can. The same could be accomplished with a good actor-team walking around outside. The pushing actor could stop in a crowd and lift the can showing it empty. When the can is placed back onto the dolly the second actor sneaks down through the dolly and into the can. � If you don�t know how to sneak into the can; the pushing actor�s costume will help hide the crawling and sneaking inside. It�s an illusion used by popular street magicians today.
Costume 2:
On top: The shopping cart filled with garbage, is pushed by severed legs. The picture is fairly self-explanatory. The live actor is bent down inside the cart and covered by rubble. The legs are his, real and do the walking. On top of his legs should be a cut-off of his mid-section. This should look as if his body was chopped in half. Not sure this would be good for outside, but should work just fine inside in the right scene.
On bottom: This is the face from stomach costume. The great thing about a haunt is you never know what you�re seeing is real or not. The upper part of this costume is fake, fake head and torso. His arms are real. The bottom half is partially-fake too. The legs are real. The stomach is tan colored spandex with a slit in it. The actor, waits for people in the haunt. When they arrive, he pokes his head through the spandex. Notice the real arms are inside the arms of the fake body. This shows his real hands for added convincing that this thing could be real.
Costume 3:
Blind zombie. This is my favorite costume idea. It satisfied all outside actor requests like the need to touch people in line. The blind zombie is dressed like a homeless person. He wears a bandanna over his eyes and carries a cane and if you like, a tip cup. In the picture, I have a trick blindfold. Those are sold in magic stores but you can just as easily use any black fabric or bandanna. The blind man�s eyes are what sell this costume. When the blind actor has felt up the person in line, trying to find his way, he shows off his empty eye socket from under the bandanna. This empty eye can be done by either blacking out the eyes or the best way, use a prosthetic. This is one costume you should have walking around outside your haunt. Plus, most people won�t attempt to bother someone who�s blind. So, those rowdy people will not bother your actor.
Costume 4:
Kitchen stew. The picture shows an actor that carries a large pot. The pot is filled with moving body parts. One of the actor�s hands is inside the pot moving the contents while the other holds it up. One fake arm and hand is needed to pull off the illusion of two hands holding a pot. The actor�s real hand is sticking through the shirt and into a hole in the back of the pot.
This effect could work with a pot filled with water too. But the hole would need to be covered with thick plastic bag. But, this makes the pot a little too heavy so it would need a strap for the actor.
Also, in this picture shows the pot on the stove. This is an old illusion where the window of an oven shows it to be empty inside. Then, an actor pops up through the pot. The oven is actually a giant mirror-box where an actor hides. This mirror inside is angled at a 45 degree. From the front, it looks empty with the door open and closed. The stove has a hole on the top for the pot. The pot has a hole in the bottom and that�s how the actor pops up. � I guess you can link the two.
Costume 5:
Stretch. This costume was for an actor who could crouch down on a shelf or part of the set. A short person standing near a prop, stretches into a very tall person. This costume, simple in its concept, is frightening to see in person. The shirt is just tucked under to start and then unrolls when the actor stands up. The pants are the same but not tucked under. The legs of the pants just hide behind the shoes. The shoes can be just shoes that sit on the ground. If you want to go further, cut the shoes in half. Remove the ankles. Then use them in front of the pants. The actor crouches on a ledge and waits for people to come by. He only needs to stand up to get a good scare. Add some arm extensions and you got a cool effect that is cheap to build.


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You've heard of the kid in the candy store. Well, my recent trip to Roth Distributing's Minneapolis Showroom the other week was like the kitchen geek version of that.
Ten thousand square feet of professionally designed vignettes stocked with the latest Sub-Zero, Wolf, Asko and Best appliances.
Roth isn't a retailer, but the regional distributor of those luxury appliance brands.
Now, we show a good amount of high-end stuff like this on our own showroom floors, but not all under one roof.
Roth's staff knows their stuff. They'll help you decide what you really want and then show you exactly how to get the most from it.
(p.s. I loved this round sink with built-in cutting boards and strainers. So cool.)
My favorite part, though was the Culinary Center, where Roth holds its live cooking demonstrations (which I seriously recommend) and where we cooked brunch that day.
Now, I love to cook. But my current kitchen isn't there yet. (The adage about mechanics and their cars holds true for appliance company employees and their kitchens, I think.)
This "living kitchen" has the best of the best cooking products, from wall ovens to dual fuel ranges to built-in steamers, wok burners (or "power burners," as they called them) and grills. And…
…griddles. This 60-inch (that's like, two standard ranges glued together) Wolf's six gas burners flank a double griddle. It might not look big at 450 pixels wide, but I'll give you a second to think about it at 5 feet wide.
Yeah. It's big.
Of course, most people won't need a 60-inch, professional range. But wouldn't it be nice?
More on griddles later. Stand by.

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LONDON & SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--There's a new way to enjoy music on Roku®. Spotify and Roku, Inc. today announced that the two companies have partnered to bring the digital music service to the Roku streaming platform. Available starting today with a Premium subscription, Spotify provides instant access to over 20 million* songs, top tracks and albums, and the ability to listen to and manage playlists. New Spotify customers can try Premium for 30 days, completely free at spotify.com/roku.
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"Spotify wants to make all of the world's music available for people to enjoy whenever and wherever they are," said Pascal de Mul, global head of hardware partnerships, Spotify. "Spotify's collaboration with Roku means that our customers now have another convenient way to enjoy the perfect music for every moment on their TVs, which are often connected to the best sound system in their homes."
Joining more than 600 video, music and casual game channels already on Roku, the Spotify channel is available now in the U.S. on Roku 2 players and the Roku Streaming Stick™ with support for all Roku HD and Roku LT players coming soon; and available now in the U.K. on all Roku players.
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To the resident District One — on Nov. 5, Governor Steve Beshear appointed me as Magistrate for District 1 in Henry County. This appointment is for the remaining term of Wayne Gunnell, who resigned as magistrate to take a new position with state government in Frankfort. I would like to thank Mr. Gunnell for his decades of public service to Henry County, and wish him the best in his new position.
Our President-elect Barack Obama must be excited because he can start hanging out in public with Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright again. John McCain is a winner because he can resume buying more homes. And we are all winners because we will never again have to hear McCain say, "my friends."
I just returned from taking matters into my own hand. I did so by exercising my right and privilege to vote as a citizen. I can't remember a time when I didn't understand the importance of voting. As a child, I observed my parents sorting through the various campaign promises and platforms of local, state, and national office seekers. With them, I watched TV coverage of the national conventions and read newspaper and magazine articles about the candidates. I even plastered my bicycle with bumper stickers in support of my choice for president.
When I finally left the office on election night, the election hadn't yet been called in Barack Obama's favor.
The lights in the office were out, traffic on the road was nonexistent, and it was still.
There was no wind, no road noise, just … quiet.
There were few, if any clouds in the sky, and the stars twinkled vividly.
I stood still in front of our door, enjoying the calmness, the quiet, the solitude.
First and foremost we want to thank Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior for making this toy run a big success. We serve an awesome God.
A big thank you to all who were involved with the Henry County Toy Run. Without all of your support this would not have been possible.
We personally want to thank Henry County Local and Cindy DiFazio. Cindy, you did an excellent job putting the story together about the toy run.
Submitted by Bruce Owens
Director, Henry County Emergency Management
Tips on designing and creating Halloween costumes at home to meet "See and be Seen" safety standards are being offered by the Kentucky Optometric Association in a pre-Halloween message to parents.
According to the vision care organization, many Halloween accidents from skinned knees to pedestrian traffic fatalities, can be traced to a child's inability to see steps, curbs and automobiles or to a driver's failure to see a child in time to stop.
I am writing today in support of Polly Troxell for Eminence City Council. I do not live in the City of Eminence therefore I cannot cast a vote for Polly on November 4. However, I do work with Polly on a daily basis at the Henry County Senior Enrichment Center. Polly devotes numerous volunteer hours to the Senior Center and to the senior citizens of Eminence and Henry County. She cares about people and about doing the right thing. If elected she would serve the city of Eminence very well. Polly is dedicated to helping people in any way that she can.
I would like to set the record straight regarding the recent controversial letters to the Editor concerning the Eminence Fire Department building a new firehouse.
Back in January I contacted Congressman Geoff Davis's office concerning any possibility of any USDA Rural Development First Responder/Community Facilities Grants being available. I was told by, Tami Wilson, in Congressman Davis's office that she did not believe the Eminence Fire Department was eligible for a grant under this funding, but she would plan to investigate.
With the election less than a week away, I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and to announce my candidacy for City Council of Eminence. Many of you may already be familiar with me and my family through the volunteer work that we have done since returning to Eminence six years ago.
I've heard that "all it takes for evil to prevail, is for good people to do nothing." What Eminence needs to know before they vote on Tuesday is that (Manda) Gingrich's entire purpose for running is to hopefully gain control of four city council seats. This would create a quorum on the council and stack every vote in favor of their agendas. Manda Gingrich, Leo Mason, Rochelle (Shelley) Summerlin and Glenn Simpson are running in tandem with each other and in protest to our mayor and council.
I have four main issues with "Team Gingrich".
We would like to share with you what an amazing community this is to live in. On Aug. 15, Doug was involved in a tractor accident that left him trapped under a tractor for two hours and very lucky to be alive! Even though the accident happened in Elmburg at his parent's farm, people came to the rescue from all over.
"Politics and religion don't mix." : No argument here. By dictionary definition, politics is 1) the art or science concerned with winning and holding control over a government 2) competition between competing interest groups or individuals for power and leadership. Religion, a term often misapplied to indicate one's faith, is a personal set or institutionalized system of attitudes, beliefs and practices that are associated with one's faith.
I have watched appallingly as a group of citizens have taken our small community and created havoc at every turn. The Making Waves group headed up by Manda Gingrich has turned our community into a virtual war zone. Friend is now against friend, family member against family member, and neighbor against neighbor — how sad.
The original direction given to Making Waves was for them to solicit pledges of funds to assist with getting the old swimming pool open — no funds were to be collected by this group.
Election day is coming! With a record number of voters expected to arrive at the polls on election day, voter preparation is the key to a smooth voting experience.
Please have your candidate selection decisions made before you get to the machine. Sample ballots will be provided at the polls, and a copy will be printed in the local paper. Please look at them and use them to be ready to vote when you enter the booth. Prepared voters make their selections quickly and are in and out of the voting booth, which helps to keep lines moving.
For many Kentucky families, the economic downturn has affected more than just their grocery bills and energy costs. The housing crisis and credit crunch have some facing potential unemployment, threat of foreclosure on their homes or even homelessness. According to the National Coalition of Homelessness, more than sixty percent of service providers have reported a rise in homelessness since the housing foreclosure crisis began in 2007. Unfortunately, as hard times sweep across the nation, many more Americans could become homeless.
I attended the last city council meeting in October when the council stated there will be no skate park. Just two months ago I had to tell my kids there will be no swimming pool and now I will have to tell them there will be no skate park. I want to know when I will be able to tell my kids some good news about recreation for them here in the city?
Rodney Vanlandingham, Eminence
Please, to the city of Eminence, let's work together for the future of all residents.
My husband is always careful to lavish praise on me whenever I help him with a chore around our farm. "You are one in a million!" he will rave if I assist the veterinarian on a day when he can't be home. "I picked a peach when I picked you," he coos as I hold up boards or wire while he repairs fence. "A guy's lucky to have a gal like you," I'll hear, sweat dripping down my face, as we drive back after pulling the truck or some machine out of a ditch. "Super job, babe! Great work!"
With millions of dollars being spent on negativity, come spend your money where it really "Makes a Difference!"
This Saturday, Oct. 25, is National Make a Difference Day. Millions of people all over the Unites States will actually be making a real difference in the lives of others!
Come join Friends For Michael, Inc Spinal Cord Injury Organization as we make a difference all day, beginning at 8 a.m. at the site of the new Henry County Recreation and Services Park on Hwy 421 just north of New Castle, KY (1125 Campbellsburg Rd) rain or shine!
If voter registration and a recent statewide poll are any indication, the upcoming election is one of the most anticipated in years in Kentucky.
According to the Secretary of State's office, there are a record 2.9 million voters registered to vote on Nov. 4th, an increase of nearly 50,000 from the May primary. In 2004, the last presidential election year, 2.79 million Kentuckians were registered.
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You can add a CNAME (alias) record to your DNS (Domain Name System) zone file for a domain registered with GoDaddy. CNAME records use a domain prefix, such as blog.coolexample.com to point to another domain name, or URL. To add a subdomain that points to an IP address, you can add a subdomain. If your domain is not registered with GoDaddy, you can add a CNAME using DNS hosting.
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- Go to your GoDaddy product page.
- Click Manage All next to Domains.
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- On the DNS Management page, at the bottom of the Records section, click Add.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 11, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Serious visual impairment -- not simply the need for glasses -- increased 21 percent between 1999 and 2008 for American adults older than 20 and diabetes may have played a significant part in that trend, new research suggests.
A number of factors appeared to contribute to the incidence of visual impairment, including a lack of insurance, poverty and age. However, the one risk factor that remained consistent throughout the study was diabetes, particularly diabetes lasting 10 years or more.
Another concerning finding linked to diabetes was a sharp increase in the incidence of visual impairment in young white people between the ages of 20 and 39. The rate of visual impairment in this group jumped 40 percent, while the rate of longstanding diabetes in young white adults rose 133 percent, according to the study.
"There has been a change on two fronts during the last seven to 10 years. One is that visual impairment is increasing, and this is visual impairment that can't be fixed with glasses. The other is that 20- to 39-year-olds are now losing vision as well," said study author Dr. Fang Ko, an ophthalmologist and resident at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Results of the study are published in the Dec. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Causes of visual impairment include age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and other retinal disorders. About 3 million people in the United States have a visual impairment that can't be corrected with glasses, according to the study.
Ko said that in order to be classified as visually impaired, someone must have vision that's 20/40 or worse. If you have 20/40 vision that means you can clearly see something from 20 feet away that someone with normal vision could see from 40 feet away. "You're not completely blind, but your vision is definitely impaired. You might have trouble getting a driver's license in some states, and it might affect your work," she said.
Ko and her colleagues reviewed data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) that was collected from 1999 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2008. NHANES is a nationally representative sample, and about 10,000 people completed surveys in each time period.
The incidence of visual impairment increased from 1.4 percent in 1999 to 2002 to 1.7 percent in 2005 to 2008, a 21 percent increase. At the same time, the rate of visual impairment in white people between the ages of 20 and 39 increased by 40 percent, from 0.5 percent to 0.7 percent, according to the study.
Age increased the risk of visual impairment by 5 percent to 7 percent, depending on the time period, while poverty more than doubled the risk in both time periods, the investigators found.
During the study time periods, the overall rate of diabetes lasting more than 10 years increased by 22 percent. (The study didn't differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, though Ko said she thought most probably had type 2 diabetes.) Between 1999 and 2002, having longstanding diabetes increased the risk of visual impairment by 93 percent. In 2005 to 2008, having diabetes for 10 years or more increased the odds of visual impairment by more than 2.5 times.
Commenting on the findings, Dr. Vivian Fonseca, president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association, said: "In this study, the odds ratio is pretty high for visual impairment and diabetes, especially diabetes lasting 10 years or more. But, in other studies, we've seen a fall in the rate of diabetic retinopathy. What's changed is the denominator. The overall prevalence of diabetes has gone up and the sheer volume of people with diabetes makes it look like things are getting worse."
On an individual basis, diabetes has become more manageable and the rates of complications have generally been coming down, Fonseca noted, but this study "should alert people looking at the public health perspective that there's yet another reason to do something about decreasing the rates of diabetes."
Although the study showed an association between diabetes and rates of visual impairment, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
Both Ko and Fonseca said anyone diagnosed with type 2 diabetes should schedule an eye exam soon after their diagnosis, and then have a dilated eye exam every year after that. For people with type 1 diabetes, the recommendation is to begin having dilated eye exams every year beginning five years after the initial diagnosis.
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Another NFL first-round draft pick was arrested last week. We just didn't know about it.
|St. Louis Rams defensive end Robert Quinn was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated by Florissant, Mo. police on July 10. (Florissant Police Department/Special to NFL.com)
The Florissant, Mo., Police Department confirmed to NFL.com and NFL Network that Robert Quinn was involved in a single-car accident on an exit ramp on I-270 at 5:38 a.m. on July 10. Quinn was determined to be intoxicated and was arrested. He cooperated fully with police.
Quinn was charged, through the Florissant Municipal Court, with driving while intoxicated, according to a press release from the police.
In addition to the drunken-driving charge, Quinn has also been charged with failure to exercise a high degree of care, and with having no insurance. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 11, Anna Davis, a clerk for the municipal court in Florissant, told the Associated Press.
The No. 14 overall draft pick in 2011, Quinn came on strong late last year after a quiet start to his rookie season. He's expected to be a key part of the St. Louis Rams' quietly dangerous defensive line.
Quinn has no known previous arrest record or history of substance abuse.
Quinn did, however, miss his final season while at the University of North Carolina for receiving improper benefits and lying to NCAA investigators.
His arrest comes during a flurry of high-profile NFL player arrests, including Dez Bryant, Marshawn Lynch and Elvis Dumervil.
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Daniel S. Loeb, the founder of Third Point LLC, has sold his entire Apple stake during the fourth quarter, according to an 13F filing with the SEC.
At the end of the third quarter, Third Point owned 710,000 shares.
Third Point also exited its Chesapeake position in the fourth quarter, the filing shows. Third Point held 5,000,000 shares at the end of Q3.
The hedge fund also sold its entire Kraft Foods stake during the fourth quarter. The fund owned 5,000,000 shares of Kraft at the end of Q3.
Other stakes Third Point completely exited during the fourth quarter include Wellpoint, Westlake Chemical, Weatherford International, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, United Health Group, United Technologies, Royal Bank of Scotland, NXP Semiconductors, Newell Rubermaid,
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The computer program the government was seeking would allow a handful of operators to control a vast army of fictitious online personalities on social-media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. And one suggestion from a contractor hoping to win the bid involved creating fake profiles for real people — without their consent — to track or smear targeted individuals.
The Air Force request for the "Online Persona Management Service" posted last year on a federal contracting website, a screen shot of which is still available online, read:
Software will allow 10 personas per user, replete with background , history, supporting details, and cyber presences [sic] that are technically, culturally and geographacilly [sic] consistent. Individual applications will enable an operator to exercise a number of different online persons from the same workstation and without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries. Personas must be able to appear to originate in nearly any part of the world and can interact through conventional online services and social media platforms. The service includes a user friendly application environment to maximize the user's situational awareness by displaying real-time local information.
Other requirements for the software included the ability to use "Virtual Private Networks" to provide unique IP addresses and locations for each of the fake online profiles. The program was also supposed to be able to protect "the identity of government agencies" engaged in the deception, while being able to blend into regular online traffic to provide "excellent cover and powerful deniability."
HBGary was one of the "security" companies to pitch its services in an effort to win the contract. And its offer went even further than what the government was originally asking for. One of the leaked e-mails from the company, for example, reads:
Those names can be cross-referenced across Facebook, twitter, MySpace, and other social media services to collect information on each individual. Once enough information is collected this information can be used to gain access to these individuals['] social circles.
Even the most restrictive and security conscious of persons can be exploited. Through the targeting and information reconnaissance phase, a person's hometown and high school will be revealed. An adversary can create a classmates.com account at the same high school and year and find out people you went to high school with that do not have Facebook accounts, then create the account and send a friend request.
Under the mutual friend decision, which is where most people can be exploited, an adversary can look at a target[']s friend list if it is exposed and find a target[']s most socially promiscuous friends, the ones that have over 300-500 friends, friend them to develop mutual friends before sending a friend request to the target. To that end friend's account can be compromised and used to post malicious material to a target[']s wall. When choosing to participate in social media an individual is only as protected as his/her weakest friend.
Another leaked e-mail from HBGary Federal's CEO about the contract was equally unsettling. "There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas … Using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/herself to key individuals as part of the exercise, as one example," he wrote.
The revelations came from a loosely affiliated group of so-called "hacktivists" known as Anonymous. The hacker activists became notorious in recent months for shutting down websites of various Middle Eastern dictatorships and companies that were targeting the whistle-blowing organization WikiLeaks. After HBGary announced that it had some names associated with Anonymous, as well as information on the organization's structure, the group retaliated.
First, it hacked into and defaced the cyber-security firm's website, posting a scathing message (click here to see it) explaining its motivations and ridiculing the company, its "security" credentials, and its supposed discoveries about Anonymous.
"Let us teach you a lesson you'll never forget: you don't mess with Anonymous. You especially don't mess with Anonymous simply because you want to jump on a trend for public attention," read the hackers' note posted on the security firm's website. "It would appear that security experts are not expertly secured."
The group also deleted the firm's backed-up data and copied tens of thousands of company e-mails, which it then distributed online. Some of the e-mails were from company CEO Aaron Barr. He admitted in one of the messages leaked by the hackers that he was hoping to use the attack on Anonymous to drum up business.
Finally, adding insult to injury, Anonymous hacked into the CEO's Twitter profile and posted not-so-flattering messages along with the security boss's alleged address and social security number. Other company executives also had their social-networking profiles compromised. And the CEO's cellphone was wiped clean, too. Security analysts were impressed with the "true hacking skills" involved in the operation.
In a press release about the attack, Anonymous wrote: "We understand that our participants have been concerned about recent FBI raids and companies such as HBGary Federal lurking and logging our chats, so we've given all of Anonymous a message: we will fight back." The group also publicly posted all of the information about Anonymous gathered by the contractor (which supposedly planned to sell it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation) to prove that it was bogus.
"We are not a group, we are not an organization. We are just an idea," the Anonymous press release stated, noting that it has no leaders. "We will respond to those who seek to threaten us."
In addition to embarrassing HBGary — possibly beyond repair — and the federal government, the e-mails leaked by Anonymous also exposed the tactics pitched to Bank of America, the Chamber of Commerce, and other high-profile entities to attack their critics through deception and fraud. Analysts have blasted the security company, the government, and the unethical and possibly unlawful trickery being discussed by both entities.
Of course, this isn't the first time the government was caught plotting shady activities online. And it almost certainly won't be the last — especially if there are no consequences, though some members of the House of Representatives have started talking about launching an investigation. But in case it's not obvious by now, Americans should always be vigilant when using the Internet — that new "friend" might just be one of the regime's agents or agent-provocateurs.


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I'm just a guy,well a Games kid,who loves Star Wars,LOTR,Half-Life series,AC series and all the fricking FPS,TPS,RPGs you can imagine,well exept Quake,'cause I never played it.Anyway,I'm sure that any game that's REALLY GOOD is going to be in my desk,or at least my HD!!! LOL That's me,Just a Games Kid that loves pc games and all that STUFF!!!!! One more thing,I'm brazillian and a RedHead,if any one comes flaming about it,GTFO!
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My wagon turntables were only designed to turn 90 degrees. Enough for the job, but not suitable to turn a loco around. Someone asked me for a new version of one of my wagon turntables. This I did, then they said they wanted it to turn a small railcar around, so I had to do some thinking. As the item was in production I started working ideas on how the mechanism could be modified. Not perfect, but the ideas generated made me think I could produce something more like a loco turntable.
I came up with the following
It is no thicker than a piece of track, so no well to cut into baseboard. If the mechanism I designed is used then it needs an extra few mm. It is intended to look like a standard deck type turntable, but obviously the pit is fake. I saw a photo showing pit filled with water, so mucky it up and it could look like it was filled with water.
It is 84mm long, which is big enough for a wide range of small locos. Gauge on this one is 16.5mm but I aim to do it in other gauges.


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For shooting video, I've set up every Canon HDSLR I've owned the same way since the very beginning, and the 5D Mark III is no different.
- Start with the Neutral Picture Style
- Set Sharpness to zero—all the way to the left
- Set Contrast all the way to the left
- Set Saturation two notches to the left
That's it. That's Prolost Flat—the Picture Style of choice for Vincent Laforet, Philip Bloom, Jason Wingrove, and many others.
Prolost Flat FAQ
How did you come to these settings? How do you know they're right?
They're not "right," they're just good. Prolost Flat has been tested the only way I care about—by shooting stuff and trying to make it look great.
What about [some other custom picture style]?
It's probably great. But it is possible to over-think this stuff, and there is such a thing as too flat.
All we're trying to do here is bring back everything the camera has to offer in an easy-to-color-correct package. To put it another way, what you want from a flat profile is to eliminate the contrast s-curve that the most Picture Styles bake into the footage. Some custom Picture Styles go so far beyond "flat" that they actually invert this curve. This not only makes the image harder to grade, it can cause quantizing and compression artifacts to show up right in the middle of your tonal range, where they're most noticeable.
What about log? Isn't log the best transfer function for grading?
Yes. And in particular, Technicolor CineStyle is very nice. If you like it too, please do use it. It's great.
But without meaning any disrespect to the folks at Technicolor, there's one big reason why you might not want to use their Picture Style. Prolost Flat can be set up in seconds on any Canon HDSLR, in the field, without any cables, computers, or downloads. What if your camera dies on a remote shoot and you rent a replacement? Or a friend shows up with her 7D and offers it as a B camera? Or you need to work with footage from another crew? Prolost Flat is always available and works on every Canon DSLR. It's easy to set up, and you can coach someone through the process over the phone, or even in a text message.
I've heard a lot of people use Prolost Flat, but bump up the sharpness a bit. Canon HDSLR video is so soft, isn't a little sharpening a good idea?
Yes. But not in camera. Never use in-camera sharpening.
- It tends to be of a poorer quality than what you can do in post.
- It's very difficult to monitor and set up accurately in the field. What looks good on a portable LCD might look hideous back in the grading suite in your calibrated, 1080p display.
- Different scenes can benefit from amounts of sharpening. What worked on the low-contrast charts at your test bench might create horribly over-sharpened results with a high-contrast exterior shot.
- Baking sharpening into your footage is as permanent as a bad tattoo. On your face. Better to give yourself the option to dial it in later, under controlled circumstances, using the amazing array of powerful post-production tools available.
- Different output media require different amounts of sharpening. The sharpening you use for a YouTube upload will be different than what you want for a broadcast master, which will be different than a Blu-ray master.
In the slideshow below, you can see one example of sharpening using the After Effects Unsharp Mask effect, with an Amount of 120 and a Radius of 1.1. You can download full-res comparison frames here.
But doesn't in-camera sharpening happen before compression? If I'm sharpening in post, aren't I also sharpening and enhancing compression and noise?
Yes. But in-camera sharpening is such a blunt instrument that even its privileged position of operating prior to compression can't save it.
A light pass of noise reduction from something like Magic bullet Denoiser II not only cleans up some compression artifacts, it also can promote your 8-bit footage to higher color fidelity by interpolating new, high-bit-depth pixels. So your HDSLR processing pipeline should look like this:
- In a 16 or 32bpc environment…
- Reduce noise
- Visual effects, if any
- Color correct
- Sharpen
- Add back some noise/grain to taste
- Titles or graphics, if any
Sharpening is a perceptual exercise. You want to sharpen what the viewer sees. So it's critical that sharpening be performed after color correction.
Everyone says the 5D Mark III's video is even softer than the Mark II's. Maybe just a little in-camera sharpening?
No. The Mark III's softness is simply the lack of artificial sharpness that came from the aliasing that plagued the 5D Mark II. This means that the footage takes sharpening in post even better than 5D Mark II footage, because there are fewer inherent artifacts to bring out.
It would be nice if the 5D Mark III resolved more detail than it does (there is plenty of room for improvement there), but adding in-camera sharpening won't make that dream a reality. It only adds permanent, ugly artifacts to your image.
Cool. I'm just going to bump up the sharpening by one tick. Sorry.
Are you sure you wouldn't be better off with a hacked GH2?
One last strike against in-camera sharpening: It limits your ability to add additional sharpening in post. You don't want to sharpen sharpening artifacts. You can see in the below comparison how even one notch of Sharpness adds ringing artifacts that will make sharpening in post problematic. These are 1:1 crops—you can download an archive of the full-res frames here.
I'm just a shooter and don't always have control over what happens to my footage. I like to add sharpness so my clients don't complain about soft footage. My children need wine!
You might also want to re-think shooting flat then. Prolost Flat is designed to be graded — and specifically, graded underneath an s-curve. If you're not going to be around to see this done properly, you might not be pleased with how your footage winds up looking in the final conform.
What about Highlight Tone Priority?
Highlight Tone Priority is an optional method Canon uses to capture more highlight detail by "pushing" the ISO one stop. The result is one extra stop of highlight detail (roughly), coupled with one extra stop's worth of noise (also roughly).
When I first posted about Prolost Flat, I recommended using HTP for bright scenes with difficult highlights. But since then, I've completely stopped using it. The benefits don't tend to outweigh the risks. And by "risks," I mean that you might leave HTP on and shoot a bunch of raw stills, and wonder why they don't look as nice as they should in Lightroom. Unlike other settings discussed here, HTP does affect raw stills. Oops.
Speaking of which, what happens if I leave my HDSLR set to Prolost Flat when I shoot stills?
JPEG stills and the embedded JPEG preview in raw files (what you see on the camera's LCD) will be created using the Picture Style. But the actual image data in the raw file is unaffected. And of course you're shooting raw, right?
I leave my Canon DSLRs in Prolost Flat all the time, even for stills. If find that the flat preview image gives me a better sense of the actual raw "negative" that I'm capturing. The only thing you have to get used to is that it's easy to underexpose slightly if you judge exposure by the preview image, as the Prolost Flat preview is brighter in the shadows than most default raw processing.
What's the right s-curve to use?
The one that looks best to you. All I'll suggest is that you use the same one from shot to shot.
You can watch me setting up some s-curves and grading under them in my Colorista II tutorials and my demonstration of color correcting food photography.
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Legislation to ban assault weapons like the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle used in the Newtown school massacre will be revived in Annapolis when the General Assembly convenes next month, according to leading lawmakers pushing to make the change.
The ban is among several gun control proposals that have languished in the Assembly but will take on greater priority as Marylanders grapple with the aftermath of the nation's second-deadliest school shooting, gun control advocates said.
"This is an absolute tipping point," said Sen. Jamie Raskin, a Montgomery County Democrat who plans to introduce a broad state-level assault weapons ban. "If we don't act now, it is hard to see when we ever would act on this."
Other proposals under discussion include giving state police greater access to mental health records as they determine who can purchase firearms and crafting a list of criteria that gun owners must meet before they can carry a concealed weapon — a recognition by many lawmakers that a federal court could strike down Maryland's restrictive right-to-carry law.
Currently, a gun owner must show a "good and substantial reason" for carrying a concealed firearm to get a permit to do so in Maryland. About 12,700 of the permits have been issued.
The law is being challenged, and similar ones have been struck down in other parts of the country.
A number of Maryland elected officials called for enhanced gun control Monday, including U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat, who called for a federal prohibition on military-style weapons. Democratic Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz also urged a halt to the sale of assault weapons, among other changes.
Some state lawmakers also want to give the state police more authority to regulate gun stores.
Gov. Martin O'Malley said Monday he would look at ways to improve gun control and gun safety, but he did not endorse any specific proposals. A spokeswoman for House Speaker Michael E. Busch said gun control would be "looked at" during the coming legislative session, while aides to Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller did not respond to a request for comment. All three men are Democrats.
Other gun control ideas are likely to surface in coming days. Several lawmakers contacted Monday said they spent the weekend brainstorming with colleagues or discussing with constituents ways to prevent mass shootings.
Sen. Bill Ferguson, a Baltimore Democrat, said he briefly considered hosting a rally to show support for Newtown victims but instead plans to host a town hall meeting on gun control.
Any proposals are sure to encounter resistance in Maryland, which has not passed any major gun control legislation in more than a decade. "It will be a brouhaha," predicted Del. Kathleen Dumais, a Montgomery County Democrat who is vice chair of the House Judiciary Committee. "Everyone will come in screaming. But I do think something needs to be done."
Maryland has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country, supporters acknowledged. Gun buyers must be 21 or over and wait seven days before making a purchase while the state police perform a criminal background check. Fourteen factors prohibit gun ownership — including a history of violence or drug or alcohol abuse. The state already bans more than a dozen semi-automatic "assault pistols," including the Uzi. Magazine rounds on semi-automatic weapons are limited to 20 bullets. A rifle used in Friday's shootings carried 30, authorities have said.
Marylanders are allowed to own or purchase 45 different types of semi-automatic weapons — guns where another bullet is automatically loaded into a chamber after being fired. The list incudes the Bushmaster rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, along with the AK-47 and the Kalashnikov semi-automatic rifle.
"There is no reason anyone needs to have a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle," said Raskin, who plans to introduce the ban when the annual 90-day legislative session opens Jan. 9. "That is just a killing machine. We can get rid of military-style assault weapons in civil society without infringing on anyone's Second Amendment rights."
Similar legislation was introduced as recently as 2010 but died in the state Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. This time, the proposal faces better odds, said Judicial Proceedings Committee Chairman Brian Frosh, a Montgomery County Democrat. He pointed out that there have been a number of mass shootings since then, and that the composition of the committee has changed. Frosh plans a news conference this week unveiling a package of gun control legislation including the assault weapons ban.
Leading the opposition in the coming session will be Del. Michael D. Smigiel, an Eastern Shore Republican whose Facebook page includes a photograph of him holding an assault rifle.
"People will try to politicize this and pass anti-Second Amendment legislation that will further create problems for the innocent and the law abiding," Smigiel said Monday, saying the Connecticut rampage should instead lead lawmakers to provide more access to mental health care.
State police access to mental health records is expected to be an issue in Annapolis. Though the department is charged with doing background checks, it does not have access to many mental health records, making it difficult to assess the mental illness history of an applicant, said Greg Shipley, a state police spokesman.
Under current law, the Maryland State Police, which regulates purchases of certain guns — mostly handguns and assault weapons — checks with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to determine whether a person applying to buy a regulated gun has ever been in a state hospital for a month. That can make someone ineligible to buy certain weapons, although former patients also can be cleared by a psychiatrist.
The General Assembly earlier this year established a task force to study the issue of giving the police more access to the records. It is expected to make recommendations soon.
"If we could address, or begin to address, the issue of access to weapons by individuals with mental health issues, I would consider that an accomplishment," said Del. Luiz Simmons, a Montgomery County Democrat who proposed the task force.


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As hundreds of gay and lesbian couples flock to courthouses around New Mexico to get married, advocates are hopeful the state's highest court will soon step in to resolve lingering legal questions and provide a uniform statewide policy on gay marriage.
For now, six of the state's 33 counties are issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and a number of other clerks say they're waiting for a court order before they take similar steps.
What remains uncertain is when a legal challenge over same-sex marriage reaches the five-member Supreme Court.
In the meantime, recently married couples aren't caught in legal limbo, according to Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, a professor of family law at the University of New Mexico.
She said Wednesday the marriages are legally sound, even if the state Supreme Court were to override recent district judge's rulings that ordered clerks to issue licenses.
"In New Mexico, the legal policy is marriages are presumed valid until a court declares them invalid (on an individual basis)," said Sedillo Lopez.
That didn't happen in 2004 when the Sandoval County clerk issued more than 60 marriage licenses to same-sex couples before stopping when then Attorney General Patricia Madrid objected. Six years later, a state district judge in Santa Fe ruled that a marriage license issued in Sandoval County to two women was valid and subject to divorce.
"Folks who have received marriage licenses from county clerks and
have gotten married with those licenses are just as married as anyone else," said Egolf, a lawyer who represented two Santa Fe men in a lawsuit that led to a court order directing county officials to issue them a marriage license.
Egolf said it's highly unlikely a court would invalidate the recent marriages that have occurred in the past week since the Dona Ana County clerk, without a court order, started issuing licenses to same-sex couples. The practice soon spread. A judge directed the Santa Fe County clerk a few days later to grant licenses and this week a district court judge in Albuquerque declared that it's unconstitutional to deny a marriage license to gay and lesbian couples.
Questions over the legality of gay marriage issue have been simmering in New Mexico for years because state law doesn't explicitly authorize or prohibit it. County clerks in the past have denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples in part because there is a marriage license application form in state statutes that contains sections for male and female applicants.
Peter Simonson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, said it's important to resolve the legal questions to ensure that gay and lesbian couples receive benefits they're entitled to as married couples, such as Social Security survivor benefits and the ability to joint married tax returns.
"Until we know for sure that the federal government will recognize marriages in the state of New Mexico, whether or not couples here qualify for joint filing remains uncertain," Simonson said. "It's our contention that the federal government should recognize marriages now throughout the state regardless of what county someone gets married in."
The path for moving the same-sex marriage legal fight to the Supreme Court remains unclear. No county clerk intends to appeal the recent orders that directed them to issue licenses.
A group of Republican legislators plans to file a lawsuit to stop clerks from issuing licenses to gay and lesbian couples, but their lawyer hasn't decided where and when the case will be filed.
The Supreme Court could step in if it grants a pending request by Egolf to consolidate all lawsuits over the issue and have the justices assume control of them. That's what happened in 2011 with competing lawsuits over political redistricting. The high court appointed a retired judge to make a decision and that was later reviewed by the justices.
Egolf wants the Supreme Court to do something similar with gay marriage, providing a way for potentially quick statewide ruling resolving the question. He hopes the high court could make a final ruling on gay marriage by the end of year.
How the Supreme Court would rule on the gay marriage issue is uncertain. But the justices unanimously decided last week that a commercial photography business owned by opponents of same-sex marriage violated an anti-discrimination law by refusing to take pictures of a gay couple's commitment ceremony. If the Supreme Court doesn't soon resolve the gay marriage question, the issue almost certainly will surface in January when the Legislature meets for a 30-day session.
Republican Gov. Susana Martinez contends that voters should decide the issue through a possible constitutional amendment.
Enrique Knell, a spokesman for Martinez, said the governor "does think our current situation shows why it's best for the voters to decide this issue - not a court, not politicians in Santa Fe, and not a patchwork of random county clerks. It would be best for voters to settle this issue."


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Taking Choqok to the Next Level
Anyone who has taken a class in economics is familiar with the difference between the direct cost of something and its 'opportunity cost'. Developing free software is a great example of this difference. A KDE developer does not have to spend hundreds of dollars on an SDK, he only needs to give up some of his time to develop.
The time given up could have been used working to earn money or doing another leisure activity; however, many choose to develop anyway. Other KDE developers have asked for sponsorship (the Krita team, for example) to allow them to put in more serious time. Now Mehrdad Momeny (mtux on IRC) has gone a step further by linking the prioritization of particular features in microblogging client Choqok with donations, perhaps a way of feeding developers. We were interested in his idea, so we had a nice IRC discussion with him a while ago to learn more.
Choqok: KDE microblogging
Who are you?
Can you tell us a bit about the history of Choqok?
What do you have in mind for the future?
So how would you like us to help you develop the features we would like?
Thanks and good luck with this initiative, Chokoq development and your other projects!
Free Software has great ambitions and bringing them into reality takes considerable resources. It is good to see developers looking for new ways of allowing them to contribute more of their time to FOSS!
How much is a better name?
More like Twitteriffic, Tweetie, Tweetdeck and less like Show Cock would be nice. I know there is a tradition with crappy K+(My)+(a..z)+K-like names. But I really think that has to stop. Plasma for example is a really great name. More of that please.
For actual feature I would like to see standards supported, like pubsubhubuphubpupsup or whatever it is called. So that Buzz etc are supported.
By kragil at Fri, 2010/05/07 - 2:47pm
No Tweetdecks please
Most KDE developers and users are not Americans, and some of the application names reflect that -- and I think it that's great. Enforcing English names would be a form of cultural imperialism. I think Choqok is a fine name and doesn't sound like 'show cock'. It doesn't even have a capital 'K' in it (which is good).
By Tuukka at Sat, 2010/05/08 - 10:09am
It used to have a capital K
It used to have a capital K until people complained :-)
By Haakon Nilsen at Mon, 2010/05/10 - 11:17am
The author of "show cock" also wrote "mmm dick"?
By asd at Mon, 2010/05/10 - 4:40pm
Twitter Lists
Is there support for twitter lists planned / in development already?
Thanks for choqok,
By Christian Muehlhaeuser at Mon, 2010/05/17 - 5:20am
There's a plan
By Mehrdad at Tue, 2010/06/08 - 9:22am


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I don't think we'd feel good doing something like "hey, this is me sitting in front of a webcam talking!" It just isn't up to the level of professionalism we want to produce. We'd want to do things more like Gamespot or The Escapist. Video capture, etc.


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The West Bay area is so deeply original, that it defies conventional labeling. Located on the western side of Narragansett Bay, it exists as so many different things to different people, yet maintains a high level of unity and civic pride. In many ways the West Bay is one of the last few "pure suburbias." Its communities are well suited to those who like a bit of space from the pace of the city, while enjoying the convenience of multiple transportation options. This is why some like to think of the West Bay as the inter-modal hub of Rhode Island. The West Bay Community Action group has made partnerships and worked extensively to support and develop useful services for the area's citizens. To those who desire an affordable, yet modern, suburb with rural touches, the West Bay is a great option, providing a life of quality, serenity, and versatility.
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Over the past 10 years, Liko, the UK's leading provider of patient lifting solutions, has installed in excess of 60 Likorall systems throughtout The West of England School and College for young people with little or no sight. The Likorall systems and hoists have helped enormously in assisting the teaching, care, therapy, mobility and nursing staff at the School and College therefore making everyday activities effortless.
With high staff to pupil ratio and 24 hour health team cover, The West of England School and College offers a specialist learning environment and is the leading regional centre for the education and care of children and young people with little or no sight covering ages from primary to post 16.
"Liko has provided service and maintenance support to the School and College for over 10 years. From an initial order for two Liko Golvos, we have gradually developed our relationship with Liko as the campus has expanded and additional equipment has been required.
To date there are 65 Likorall and overhead hoist systems installed, most of which are used in conjunction with sitting slings and more orders are expected in the next 12 months," explained Jill Dudding (Therapy Manager).
The overhead hoists have been installed across the entire School and College campus including the accommodation areas such as bedrooms and bathrooms, classrooms, therapy areas and the swimming pool. The swimming pool is a prime example of the versatility of the Liko overhead hoists. Once the students are changed and ready for swimming they are placed in a sling and then moved effortlessly from the changing room through to the swimming area and over the pool thanks to the Likorall being installed throughout the building. Therefore there is no need to transfer from room to room, reducing the need for additional staff and any possible distress for the students. Another example of how the Liko system is unique is when transferring children on and off the trampoline for Physiotherapy sessions.
With the Liko system the number of staff required for transfer is greatly reduced resulting in less expenditure. As a result, pupils can be given the extra time they need to have fun, make friends and build confidence and esteem. This puts less emphasis on the pupils' disability and more on preparing the learners for transition to the next stage of life.
"In addition to the superb standard of equipment from Liko, the service side of the business is also exceptional.
Whenever we have had a new installation or work carried out as part of the service contract we have never had a problem with the Liko personnel. In fact, I have never known workmen to leave a site so tidy," continued Jill. All Liko (UK) engineers are trained in maintenance, testing and inspection procedures to ensure every contract's individual requirements are met. Maintenance clients have the option to sign up to a 24 hour helpline and every Liko (UK) service vehicle is fitted with a tracker to ensure an engineer is on site as quickly as possible.
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Incontinence & Pelvic Floor Disorders
Surgical Options
Doctors may suggest surgery to improve bladder control if other treatments have failed. Surgery helps only urinary stress urinary incontinence and it has proven to be very effective. The best surgical procedures improve or cure the incontinence associated with coughing laughing sneezing and exercise in about 85% of women.
Sling-type Procedures
Also referred to as the Tension-free Vaginal Tape procedure (TVT). This procedure involves placing a strap of graft material underneath the mid to upper portion of the urethra or neck of the bladder to provide support during activities that increase abdominal pressure such as coughing or lifting something heavy. The support helps to prevent urine from leaking out through the urethra. Over the years, numerous graft materials have been used. Today, the sling is most often made of polypropylene mesh.
The mid-urethral mesh sling is inserted through three small half inch incisions: one in the vagina (underneath the urethra) and two above or along side the pubic bone. The sling can be placed at the time of another procedure or it can be done independently as an outpatient procedure under minimal anesthesia. The continence rates after the sling are equivalent or slightly superior to the traditional Burch procedure demonstrated in clinical trials.
Burch or Marshall Marchetti Krantz (MMK) Colposupension
The Burch or MMK procedures have been performed for over 50 years through a lower abdominal incision. In this operation, stitches are placed into the vagina wall along side the urethra at the bladder neck and then secured to ligaments nearby in the pelvis or into the strong tissue that covers the back of the pubic bone. The stitches lift the vaginal wall that the urethra rests upon and provides support to the bladder neck and urethra. These procedures can also be done laparoscopically. The procedure produces a long-term improvement in more than 70% of patients with stress incontinence.
Peri-urethral Bulking Agent Injections
In this procedure, a long acting or permanent paste-like substance (such as collagen or others) is injected into the muscular wall of the urethra using a cystoscope. This injection causes the tube of the urethral to narrow which results in less urine leakage. Although the rate of continence is less after this procedures when compared to the sling type or the Burch procedures, it is much less invasive, does not require incisions, has a low complication rate and can be performed in an office or on an outpatient basis. Seven out of 10 women who have a bulking agent injection report that their leakage is improved or has stopped. This improvement lasted about 1-2 years at which point, if the leakage returns and is disturbing, the same procedure may be repeated or an alterative treatment may be chosen.
Periurethral bulking agent injections are frequently recommended for women in poor medical health for whom more invasive surgery or anesthesia is not safe; on blood thinner medications; cannot take time off to recover from surgery; or who continue to leak after other incontinence surgery.
Many times surgery is chosen when a vaginal pessary is either not desired or cannot be retained comfortably. There are several different surgical techniques which are effective. Often the choices offered to a women depends upon her anatomy, overall health, her prior surgeries and current medical conditions, her desire to retain sexual function and the experience and training of her surgeon. Deciding whether or not to have surgery for prolapse is an individual decision.
Apical Suspensions
The most important aspect of a prolapse repair (when maintaining sexual function is desired) is restoration of the support of the top of the vagina which is also called the vaginal apex or vault.
Common procedures that do this are:
- Abdominal Sacral Colpopexy (ASC) – At Silver Cross, the ASC is performed through an abdominal incision (about 3-4 inches long) or laparoscopically (through 4 half inch incisions). In this procedure straps of graft material are used to reinforce the front and back walls of the vagina. These straps are then attached to a strong ligament overlying the sacrum. The end result is that the vagina is suspended over the pelvic muscles to the back-bone. The mesh graft straps replace the original natural support provided by the uterosacral ligaments.
- Uterosacral or Sacrospinous Ligament Fixation – When a vaginal incision is preferred, the top of the vagina is most often suspended to a woman's own uterosacral ligament or the sacrospinous ligaments. Traditionally these procedures did not use graft material. Recently, more surgeons are adding graft reinforcement to the natural ligament suspensions in an effort to improve the durability of the prolapse repair when surgeons find the vaginal wall to be weak.
Anterior Vaginal Suspension
A bulge of the front wall of the vagina usually results in loss of support to the bladder that rests upon this part of the vagina. The goal of a cystocele repair is to elevate the anterior vaginal wall back into the body and support the bladder. This can be done either vaginally or at the same time as ASC. Anterior colporrhaphy is a commonly performed repair of a bulges. In an anterior colporrhaphy, an incision is made in the front wall of the vagina. The vaginal skin is separated from the bladder wall behind it. The weak or frayed edges of the deep vaginal wall are found and the strong tissue next to edges are sutured to each other lifting the bladder and recreating the strong "wall" underneath it. The vaginal incision is then closed with dissolving stitches. Unfortunately, this part of the pelvic floor is subjected to significant pressure with each cough or when picking up heavy things. As many as one third of women will develop recurrent anterior prolapse after an anterior colporrhaphay. To reduce this recurrence of prolapse, a surgeon may chose to place a "patch" of graft material over the repair line to reinforce the repair.
Posterior Vaginal Prolapse Repair
A bulge of the back wall of the vagina is most often repaired by a vaginal procedure called posterior colporrhaphy. A bulge may also be fixed abdominally at the time of ASC. Posterior colporrhaphy is a procedure that repairs the rectal bulge protruding through the back wall of the vagina. During the procedure, an incision is made in the back wall of the vagina. The vaginal skin is separated from the rectal wall underneath. The weak or frayed edges of the deep vaginal wall tissue are identified. The strong tissue next to edges are sutured to each other recreating the strong "wall" between the rectum and the vagina. The vaginal incision is then closed. At times, a surgeon may chose to place a "patch" of graft material over the repair line to reinforce the repair. Studies are ongoing to help understand the role of these graft materials in rectocele repair. Your surgeon will most likely close the incision with self-dissolving stitches.
Obliterative Procedures
For those women who do not need to maintain sexual function, an obliterative procedure may be the quickest and least risky method to correct prolapse. Obliterative operations correct prolapse by narrowing and shortening the vagina. These procedures support the pelvic organs with the patient's own pelvic muscles in such a way as to make the vagina too small to accommodate a penis for sexual intercourse. The skin overlying the vaginal bulge is removed, and the front and back walls of the vagina are sewn to each other. A woman who has undergone this surgery will look the same on the outside of her genital area and she will be able to have bowel movements and urinate normally. Her ability to have an orgasm with clitoral stimulation is similar to before her surgery. There are two main types of obliterative surgery: Partial (colpocleisis) and complete (colpectomy). Both are very effective and durable in correcting prolapse. Prior surgeries often influence which procedure is offered to women. The benefit of obliterative surgery is that it is very durable, does not involve the risks of graft materials, tends to be less invasive and therefore is associated with a quicker recovery.
Ask your physician if surgery is right for you. Contact a doctor who specializes in surgery to treat urinary stress incontinence:
Dexter Arrington, M.D., New Lenox & Olympia Fields
Francisco Garcini, M.D., New Lenox
Hysoo Ka-Widmann, M.D., New Lenox
Gamilah Pierre, M.D., New Lenox
Sandra Culbertson, M.D., New Lenox & Chicago
Thomas Burns, Jr., M.D., Joliet
Gregory Lewis, M.D., Joliet, New Lenox
Ryan Manecke, M.D., Joliet, New Lenox
Constance Marks, M.D., Joliet, New Lenox
Sandeep Sawkney, M.D., Joliet, New Lenox


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In a flourish of tennis balls and Hacky Sacks, casting director Jackie Burch knew immediately Dallas Doiron was her find for the day.
Doiron, a Tybee Island resident, tried out along with seven others on Wednesday for a part in "The Last Song," a Miley Cyrus movie scheduled to begin filming in Savannah and Tybee Island in June.
Watch video from the auditions.
Burch said she has already replied to e-mails from about 2,000 local hopefuls. On Wednesday she was looking for two boys to fill the roles of high school-age tough guys during an open casting call at Rousakis Plaza's Arbor Stage on River Street.
Burch, who is in charge of local casting for the movie, said she expected to see only about 20 potentials. In addition to looking like a high school tough guy, the candidates had to be able to juggle and play Hacky Sack.
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Doiron, who said he taught himself to juggle with friends in his basement, was the only one asked to return for another tryout with the movie's director today.
"There is a star quality to him, you can tell the camera will love him," Burch said.
Bob Brown, who graduated Sunday from Savannah Christian, was the first to show off his juggling skills.
Although he is planning to attend The University of Georgia this fall, he has not yet decided on a career.
A self-taught juggler, Brown said his reason for auditioning was the hope of adding a movie to his resume.
"This is an opportunity that doesn't come very often," he said. "At least to Savannah. If I wanted to be in another big movie, it would be New York or L.A. I appreciate them coming out here and giving us a chance."
"The Last Song" is written by acclaimed author Nicholas Sparks. Some of Sparks' other works include "The Notebook," "Message in a Bottle" and "A Walk to Remember."
View more photos from the auditions.
This movie, written with Cyrus in mind, is intended to be her breakout role from her "Hannah Montana" character.
Cyrus will play a young woman who spends the summer with her estranged father.
Oscar-nominated actor Greg Kinnear has been cast in the role of Cyrus' father while Liam Hemsworth, an Australian actor, is slated to play her love interest.


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In tonight's Division II state semifinals at Huron Memorial Stadium, the Aurora Greenmen football squad hopes to stop a potent Toledo Central Catholic offense which has averaged 46 points a game.
Aurora will travel west to the port city of Huron, located on Lake Erie's southern shore between Vermilion and Sandusky.
The Irish have scored 597 points while compiling a 12-1 record. Their only loss was to Division I undefeated Toledo Whitmer, 42-0, which is in the state semifinals against Mentor.
Other than being shutout by Whitmer, Central's lowest scoring output in the regular season was 35 points against Perrysburg. The Irish have tallied 40-plus points in 11 of their wins, including at least 60 twice.
The Greenmen (12-1) have posted 519 points on offense and given up 192. Central has scored more than AHS, but given up a few more (217).
Central has competed in the Ohio playoffs 14 years, including the last nine straight. The Irish won the Division II crown in 2005 and the Associated Press poll title in 1962. They won 12 Toledo City League crowns from 1936 to 2008.
This year, the Toledo team finished second to Whitmer in the Three Rivers Athletic Conference, while Aurora tied with Chagrin Falls for the Chagrin Valley Conference Chagrin Division title.
Central beat Avon, the team that eliminated Aurora in the state semifinals last year, 42-14 in last week's Region 6 championship game at Clyde.
CC senior running back Amir Edward rushed 19 times for 134 yards and three touchdowns. He has gained 1,502 yards and scored 27 TDs this season.
He is complemented by junior running backs Paul Moses (just over 600 yards and 13 TDs) and Cedric Gray (about 400 yards and five TDs).
CC junior quarterback DeShone Kizer ran for 77 yards and was 9-of-16 passing for 108 yards and a score against Avon. He passed for six TDs and ran for four in CC's playoff wins over Midview and Mansfield Madison.
For the season, he has completed passes for nearly 1,500 yards and 17 TDs. He's been intercepted only once.
Denrich Weiland and tight end Keith Towbridge, who is headed to the University of Louisville, are Central's top receivers. Central has averaged about 390 total yards a game (about 280 on the ground).
On defense, some of the Central standouts are tackle Jon Perrin, end Towbridge, linebackers Chris Green and Ian Butler and backs Jayme Thompson (headed to Ohio State), Mitch Cochell and Joe Solomon (4 interceptions).
Named to the Associated Press' Northwest Ohio all-district first team were Towbridge, Edwards, Perrin, Thompson, Kizer and offensive linemen Jeff Dew and Zach Harmon.
"There's no doubt they (CC) are a very talented team and it will be a great challenge for us," said AHS head coach Bob Mihalik. "I think people think they and Trotwood Madison are on a collision course to meet in the title game. We haven't been able to play that underdog role much this year, so we're looking forward to it."
As if preparing for a state semifinal game isn't tough enough, teams must do it on Thanksgiving week. Mihalik said Aurora tries to keep things as normal as possible while giving the kids time with families.
AHS was to have normal practices on Monday and Tuesday since school was still in session. But with no school on Wednesday, Mihalik said coaches will let the players sleep before bringing them in.
The normal pregame dinner on Thursday was moved to Wednesday, and the squad will have a quick walk through Thanksgiving morning before spending family time.
"It's a lot for them," Mihalik said. "It's a long tournament and a lot of time. You've got to remember these are still kids with homework, family, girlfriend and friends that take up their time.
"NFL players have trouble getting up every week and they only have to deal with football. For our kids to remain focused is a credit to them."
Huron Memorial Stadium has a ProGrass artificial surface. The Huron schools' website bills it as "the finest Division IV Stadium in Ohio." The artificial turf was installed in 2008, when the surface was named Kalahari Field after the indoor water park at Sandusky.
The Aurora-Toledo CC winner will face the New Albany-Trotwood Madison winner on Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. in Massillon's Paul Brown Tiger Stadium.