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Childhood craniopharyngiomas are benign brain tumors found near the pituitary gland.
Childhood craniopharyngiomas are rare tumors usually found near the pituitary gland (a pea-sized organ at the bottom of the brain that controls other glands) and the hypothalamus (a small cone-shaped organ connected to the pituitary gland by nerves).
Anatomy of the inside of the brain, showing the pineal and pituitary glands, optic nerve, ventricles (with cerebrospinal fluid shown in blue), and other parts of the brain.
Craniopharyngiomas are usually part solid mass and part fluid -filled cyst. They are benign (not cancer) and do not spread to distant parts of the brain or to other parts of the body. However, they may grow and press on parts of the brain or other nearby areas, including the pituitary gland, the optic chiasm, optic nerves, and fluid-filled spaces in the brain. Many functions including hormone making, growth, vision, and normal working of the brain may be affected. Benign brain tumors need treatment.
This summary discusses the treatment of primary brain tumors (tumors that begin in the brain). Treatment for metastatic brain tumors, which are tumors formed by cancer cells that begin in other parts of the body and spread to the brain, is not discussed in this summary. See the PDQ treatment summary on Childhood Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors Treatment Overview for information about the different types of childhood brain and spinal cord tumors.
Brain tumors can occur in both children and adults; however, treatment for children may be different than treatment for adults. (See the PDQ summary on Adult Brain Tumors for more information.)
There are no known risk factors for childhood craniopharyngioma.
Craniopharyngiomas are rare in children younger than 2 years of age and are most often diagnosed in children aged 5 to 14 years. It is not known what causes these tumors to form.
Possible signs of childhood craniopharyngioma include vision changes and slow growth.
These and other symptoms may be caused by craniopharyngiomas. Other conditions may cause the same symptoms. Check with your child's doctor if you see any of the following problems in your child:
Tests that examine the brain, vision, and hormone levels are used to detect (find) childhood craniopharyngiomas.
The following tests and procedures may be used:
Childhood craniopharyngiomas are diagnosed and may be removed in the same surgery.
Doctors may diagnose a craniopharyngioma based on where the tumor is in the brain and how it looks on a CT scan or MRI. Sometimes a biopsy is required to find out the type of tumor. The biopsy is done during surgery, and a tissue sample is removed, using one of the following procedures:
A pathologist views the tissue under a microscope to look for tumor cells. If tumor cells are found, the doctor may remove as much tumor as safely possible during the same surgery.
Certain factors affect prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options.
The prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options depend on the following:
The process used to find out if cancer has spread within the brain or to other parts of the body is called staging. There is no standard system for staging childhood craniopharyngioma. Craniopharyngioma is described as newly diagnosed disease or recurrent disease.
The results of the tests and procedures done to diagnose craniopharyngioma are used to help make decisions about treatment.
Recurrent craniopharyngioma is a tumor that has recurred (come back) after it has been treated. The tumor may come back in the same area of the brain where it was first found.
There are different types of treatment for children with craniopharyngioma.
Different types of treatments are available for children with craniopharyngioma. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials. A treatment clinical trial is a research study meant to help improve current treatments or obtain information on new treatments for patients with tumors. When clinical trials show that a new treatment is better than the standard treatment, the new treatment may become the standard treatment.
Because tumors in children are rare, taking part in a clinical trial should be considered. Clinical trials are taking place in many parts of the country. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site. Choosing the most appropriate treatment is a decision that ideally involves the patient, family, and health care team.
Children with craniopharyngioma should have their treatment planned by a team of health care providers who are experts in treating brain tumors in children.
Treatment will be overseen by a pediatric oncologist, a doctor who specializes in treating children with tumors. The pediatric oncologist works with other pediatric healthcare providers who are experts in treating children with brain tumors and who specialize in certain areas of medicine. These may include the following specialists:
Childhood brain tumors may cause symptoms that begin before diagnosis and continue for months or years.
Symptoms caused by the tumor may begin before diagnosis. These symptoms may continue for months or years. It is important to talk with your child's doctors about symptoms caused by the tumor that may continue after treatment.
Some treatments for tumors cause side effects months or years after treatment has ended.
Side effects from tumor treatment that begin during or after treatment and continue for months or years are called late effects. Late effects of tumor treatment may include the following:
For example, serious late effects of radiation therapy for craniopharyngioma may include the following:
Some late effects may be treated or controlled. It is important to talk with your child's doctors about the effects tumor treatment can have on your child. (See the PDQ summary on Late Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer for more information).
Five types of treatment are used:
The way the surgery is done depends on the size of the tumor and where it is in the brain. It also depends on whether the tumor has grown into nearby tissue in a finger-like way. The types of surgery include the following:
Sometimes all of the tumor that can be seen is removed in surgery and no further treatment is needed. At other times, it is more difficult to remove the tumor because it is growing into or pressing on nearby organs. Serious problems may occur if the pituitary gland, hypothalamus, optic nerves, or carotid artery are affected during surgery.
If there is tumor remaining after the surgery, radiation therapy is usually given to kill any tumor cells that are left. Treatment given after the surgery, to lower the risk that the cancer will come back, is called adjuvant therapy.
After surgery, follow-up testing with MRI will be done for several years to check if the tumor has come back. Also, if part of the pituitary gland is removed in surgery, several types of pituitary hormone replacement pills will be given for life.
Surgery with cyst drainage
Surgery may be done to drain tumors that are mostly cyst. This lowers pressure in the brain and relieves symptoms. A catheter (thin tube) is inserted into the cyst and a small container is placed under the skin. The fluid drains into the container and is later removed. Sometimes, after the cyst is drained, a drug that causes the inside wall of the cyst to scar is put through the catheter into the cyst. This is done to stop the cyst from making fluid or to increase the amount of the time it takes for the fluid to build up again. Surgery to remove the tumor may be done after the cyst is drained.
Limited surgery and radiation therapy
Limited surgery is used to treat some craniopharyngiomas. It is used to diagnose the tumor, remove fluid from a cyst, and relieve any pressure on the optic nerves. Limited surgery is followed by radiation therapy. This treatment option may have fewer serious side effects than surgery to remove tumor from the pituitary gland or hypothalamus.
Radiation therapy is a tumor treatment that uses high-energy x-rays or other types of radiation to kill tumor cells or keep them from growing. There are two types of radiation therapy. External radiation therapy uses a machine outside the body to send radiation toward the tumor. Internal radiation therapy uses a radioactive substance sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters that are placed directly into or near the tumor. The way the radiation therapy is given depends on the type of tumor being treated and whether it has spread.
Because radiation therapy to the brain can affect growth and development in young children, ways of giving radiation therapy that have fewer side effects are being studied. These include:
Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses anticancer drugs to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. When chemotherapy is taken by mouth or injected into a vein or muscle, the drugs enter the bloodstream and can reach tumor cells throughout the body (systemic chemotherapy). When chemotherapy is placed directly into the cerebrospinal fluid or an organ, the drugs mainly affect tumor cells in those areas (regional chemotherapy). Intracavitary chemotherapy is a type of regional chemotherapy that places drugs directly into a cavity, such as a cyst. The way the chemotherapy is given depends on the type of tumor being treated.
Biologic therapy
Biologic therapy is a treatment that uses the patient's immune system to fight cancer. Substances made by the body or made in a laboratory are used to boost, direct, or restore the body's natural defenses against cancer. This type of cancer treatment is also called biotherapy or immunotherapy. For craniopharyngioma, the biologic therapy drug is placed directly inside the tumor using a catheter.
Patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial.
For some patients, taking part in a clinical trial may be the best treatment choice. Clinical trials are part of the medical research process. Clinical trials are done to find out if new treatments are safe and effective or better than the standard treatment.
Many of today's standard treatments are based on earlier clinical trials. Patients who take part in a clinical trial may receive the standard treatment or be among the first to receive a new treatment.
Patients who take part in clinical trials also help improve the way diseases will be treated in the future. Even when clinical trials do not lead to effective new treatments, they often answer important questions and help move research forward.
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with childhood craniopharyngioma. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Patients can enter clinical trials before, during, or after starting their treatment.
Some clinical trials only include patients who have not yet received treatment. Other trials test treatments for patients who have not improved. There are also clinical trials that test new ways to stop a disease from recurring (coming back) or reduce the side effects of treatment.
Clinical trials are taking place in many parts of the country. See the Treatment Options section that follows for links to current treatment clinical trials. These have been retrieved from NCI's clinical trials database.
Follow-up tests may be needed.
Some of the tests that were done to diagnose the disease or decide how to treat it may be repeated. Some tests will be repeated in order to see how well the treatment is working. Decisions about whether to continue, change, or stop treatment may be based on the results of these tests.
Some of the tests will continue to be done from time to time after treatment has ended. The results of these tests can show if your condition has changed. These tests are sometimes called follow-up tests or check-ups.
A link to a list of current clinical trials is included for this treatment section. Check with your doctor for clinical trials that are not listed here but may be right for you.
Newly Diagnosed Childhood Craniopharyngioma
Treatment of newly diagnosed childhood craniopharyngioma may include the following:
Recurrent Childhood Craniopharyngioma
Craniopharyngioma may recur (come back) no matter how it was treated the first time. Treatment options for recurrent childhood craniopharyngioma are based mainly on what type of treatment was given before and the needs of the individual child. Treatment options may include:
For more information about childhood craniopharyngioma and other childhood brain tumors, see the following:
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In it, the actor says he avoided Haim's funeral to minimize media attention and that only recently has he had time to grieve.
I miss you so much already. When I think of something funny I don't know who to tell it to. I find myself trying to call you but then remember your not there. I think about the new movies we will soon be doing together and then suddenly realize [sic] that the dream is over.
Haim died on March 10. Feldman says he knew "this day would come."
But once confronted with the reality of it, it's so much more painful than I could have ever imagined. Nobody will ever understand the brotherhood we shared. Nobody will ever get the inside jokes we told. Nobody will understand the magic of 22/222 . Nobody will ever know how to do the secret Corey handshake. Nobody will ever make me laugh as hard as you did. Nobody will ever make me fight as hard as you did. Nobody will ever challenge me the way you did. Nobody will ever need me the way you did.
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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gets a fierce look in her eyes when she talks about the year's upcoming policy challenges: major health-care, energy and global warming legislation.
"Washington is a very perishable town. You have an opportunity," she said. "You must seize it. Otherwise, it may not be there"
That in a nutshell could describe the California Democrat's year so far. Since she began her second term as speaker three months ago, the House of Representatives has passed a $787 billion economic stimulus, a measure making it easier for workers to challenge unfair pay laws, a $3.5 trillion fiscal 2010 budget and an expansion of the children's health-care program.
Now come the most vexing tasks: overhauling a health-care system that many lawmakers regard as too expensive and often too inefficient, reducing carbon emissions and adjusting the federal role in education.
"As time passes, keeping Democratic unity will be tougher. Navigating through health care and climate change will not be easy," said Norman Ornstein, a congressional analyst at Washington's American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy-research center.
Pelosi's seize-the-moment resolve is seen as her strength but also as her weakness.
Ross Baker, a congressional expert at Rutgers University, compared Pelosi to legendary Democratic mid-20th-century House Speaker Sam Rayburn.
"He had the confidence of Roosevelt and Truman," Baker said. "She's more powerful than Rayburn because she has the Democratic caucus under control."
"She has done a pretty good job of listening," said Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss. "She hasn't put pressure on us, and I respect that."
Taylor, a moderate who's broken with Democratic congressional leaders in the past, warned, however: "A lot of freshmen rode into town on President Obama's coattails, and they're not about to desert him." If Obama stumbles, they could, too.
Republicans warn that it's not hard to do well at the start of a legislative session with a 76-seat majority and a clear mandate from the voters.
"Right now the Democrats, with the new president and Congress, are riding high," said. Rep. Peter King of New York, one of the Republican moderates who've formed coalitions with Democrats in the past. "But these things are cyclical."
Pelosi derives power from three sources: her own personality and style, her huge majority and Democrats' pent-up demand for pet bills.
The 69-year-old speaker grew up around politics. Her father and brother were mayors of Baltimore. She moved to San Francisco in the late 1960s after her marriage to Paul Pelosi, and she entered politics in the late 1970s as her five children grew older. She made her reputation as a Democratic Party organizer and fundraiser, winning a House seat in 1987 in a special election after the incumbent died.
She specialized in budget and intelligence matters and rose quickly, becoming the speaker when Democrats won control of the House in 2006.
Pelosi's first two years as speaker were only modestly successful. With a Republican president sharply disagreeing with most of her views, she was unable to muster the votes to stop U.S. involvement in Iraq or win passage of major spending initiatives. Her effort to replace popular Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., with gruff Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., ended in defeat when Hoyer beat Murtha handily.
So far, this year has been very different. Bush is gone, and Pelosi has a 254-member army, which means that she could suffer as many as 36 defections and still win. So far, though, most Democratic lawmakers are eager for Obama's agenda.
Also smoothing her path was a backlog of bills that Republicans had stymied for years. Within weeks this year, the House passed expansions of the national service program and health insurance coverage for lower-income children. It approved the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to make it easier for women and others to challenge discriminatory pay laws.
As King recalled, however, Republican then-Speaker Newt Gingrich had the same winning streak in 1995 — without White House support — as the House broke for its April recess. Republicans had taken control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, and Gingrich rallied his party behind his "Contract with America," a multi-part plan for change.
Those first months were the year's highlight for Republicans. By that winter, they were in a bitter fight with President Bill Clinton over spending, a fight that shut down much of the federal government for weeks.
Some skeptics see similar pitfalls for Pelosi ahead.
They wonder whether she's overreaching. Two powerful committee chairmen were reluctant last month to back a plan to slap a 90 percent tax on bonuses that executives such as those at bailed-out American International Group earned last year, until Pelosi made it clear that she wanted the bill.
She got it, but the Senate slowed the process and no bill has yet been enacted.
Just as top House committee chairmen were wary of the tax, few had expected the Senate to adopt it without a struggle, meaning that the House vote was seen at the time as much as an expression of anger as the first step in a legislative process.
"She got it through. On the other hand she went too populist, too liberal," King said. "Her liberalism could hurt the Democratic Party."
Pelosi makes no secret of her liberal leanings, and Republicans gleefully point them out at every opportunity. They routinely complain that Pelosi hasn't consulted them on major decisions. The Republican Party was particularly irked by being left out of major talks on the economic stimulus even after Obama asked for their input.
"We really would love to see as Republicans some step by Speaker Pelosi to put that good will into action when we talk about crafting legislation," said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va.
"As you've seen from the get-go, the rules that were put in place have not afforded us much opportunity to make our voice known on the floor."
Pelosi countered that she certainly wants bipartisan cooperation, saying, "That's how we operate."
Then she laughed, and she may inadvertently have offered her recipe for success, while foreshadowing potential trouble ahead.
"I'm talking about consensus on the Democratic side," she said.
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Not too many years ago, September 2006 to be precise, I decided to look for the actual birth record of my husband's 5th great-grandfather, Thomas Potter. I had found a memorial to him in the Col. Thomas Potter Lot, a local cemetery. This memorial stated that he was the son of Ichabod Potter (son of Robert and Elizabeth (Cole) Potter), and his first wife Deborah Reynolds Potter.
However, I was finding more evidence that he was actually the son of Ichabod's second wife Margaret Potter (daughter of Ichabod and Margaret (Helme) Potter).
I had been to the Town Hall before to look up other births or deaths. The pre-1960 or so records are all listed on index cards, stored alphabetically in file cabinets. On the card you find the book and page number of the record you would like to see. I had researched some events from the late 1800s or early 1900s. The clerk would bring the correct vital record book to a counter where you could look at the record with the clerk looking on. This day I asked for the record book that contained records from the 1730s. It took a while for the clerk to locate the book. First, she brought me one from the 1830s and we couldn't locate the correct page and entry. When she/we realized it was the wrong book she had to do a bit of hunting to find the correct one. It turned out that during this time period, the town meetings were recorded in this book and events such as births, deaths and marriages were recorded in the same book. She gave me the book and told me I could look at it at the table in the vault room. I was left alone with this book that was the original book for the town.
As I started (carefully) turning pages it began to dawn on me what I was holding. I had the book that the originators of my town recorded its history in. The very book! The writing was elegant. The pages were crisp. It was history in my very own hands. It was an intense experience.
I couldn't really believe that I was allowed to handle this book. When I found the entry I was looking for, I quietly took out my digital camera and snapped a couple of pictures. After a bit more time of just looking and feeling the moment I had to leave. On my way out I mentioned to one of the clerks that I was amazed that I was allowed to handle the book, especially with no oversight. I was a little worried about what could happen to that book.
For my personal research, I was right that Thomas Potter was born to Ichabod and Margaret. Here is the entry as I captured it with my camera.
When I had time to reflect I was even more amazed and a little bothered about the experience at the town hall. I didn't do anything about it ... but I thought about it quite a bit. A few months later, I went back. You couldn't look at the original anymore. I was both disappointed and relieved. I had held history in my hands and I had felt that history!! But I know that that same history is better protected now, for me and for future generations.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Taylor Degraaf of Cal State San Marcos has been named the NAIA Volleyball National Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Degraaf was selected based on her performances from Sept. 16 - 22 and was chosen out of a pool of conference player of the week selections among 23 conferences and independents.
Degraaf, a 5-foot-10 junior outside hitter from Arcadia, Calif., averaged 5.18 kills per set, 3.73 digs per set and hit for a .324 attack clip in three wins for the Cougars last week. She recorded her 10th double-double of the year (in 24 matches) with a 21-kill, 19-dig effort in the 3-1 home win (25-27, 25-16, 25-19, 25-23) against No. 9 Westmont (Calif.) on Sept. 17. In the 3-0 sweep (25-14, 25-12, 25-11) of California-Merced on Sept. 20, she finished with a season-high in attack percentage (.591). Degraaf finished the week with 22 kills and 16 digs in a victory over William Jessup (Calif.) on Sept. 21. DeGraaf is the NAIA leader in kills (352) and is third in kills per game (4.46).
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Nominees: Maddy Hammack, Missouri Baptist; Caitlin Brickley, Columbia (S.C.); Colleen Stafford, La Sierra (Calif.); Casey Loper, Eastern Oregon; Katie Tabisz, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Rae Brandes, Indiana Wesleyan; Korey Krumm, Montana Tech; Gracee Gallarda, Biola (Calif.); Mackenzie Scheef, Midland (Neb.); Moira Kirk, Xavier (La.); Kendra Martin, Graceland (Iowa); Chelsi Hummert, Lindenwood-Belleville (Ill.); Morgan Martells, Ashford (Iowa); Danielle Dowdy, Saint Mary (Kan.); Taylor Ashworth, Berea (Ky.); Rinata Aisena, Campbellsville (Ky.); Annie Benson, Bellevue (Neb.); Alicia Olson, Viterbo (Wis.); Sarah Becker, Jamestown (N.D.); Danica Markovic, Texas at Brownsville; Shahala Hawkins, Wayland Baptist (Texas); Cayley Meiners, Coastal Georgia; Adrienne Czaplewski, Warner (Fla.); Cailie Johnson, Cornerstone (Mich.).
2013 NAIA Volleyball Players of the Week (complete schedule)
Week 1 (Sept. 10) - Kaitlin Floerchinger, Northwestern (Iowa)
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The Neurosciences Institute is a non-profit scientific research organization dedicated to learning about the brain for the benefit of humankind. Founded by the late Nobel Laureate Gerald M. Edelman, the Institute focuses its research on the principles underlying how we perceive and act upon the world, how we learn and remember, and how consciousness arises.
The Neurosciences Institute is dedicated to increasing knowledge about how the brain works at the most fundamental levels. By that, we mean defining the fundamental principles of anatomy and physiology that enable the brain and nervous system to carry out their myriad functions. Although many facts are known about the nervous system from the molecular to the cellular to the tissue levels and new information is being discovered every day, a generally agreed-upon set of basic overall principles that would explain how we see, how we move, or how we are conscious remains elusive.
For three decades, The Neurosciences Institute has developed a theoretical approach called synthetic neural modeling, where large-scale computer simulations of nervous systems based on realistic approximations of anatomical and physiological data are used to learn about the brain. The functions of the nervous system arise only as it interacts with the rest of the body and as an animal engages in a behavior in the world, so we engage our synthetic neural models with behavioral tasks and embody them in robot-like devices. These brain-based devices (BBDs) learn from their own experience in their environment, just like we do. They have been used to study the neural bases of perception, operant and fear conditioning, episodic and spatial memory, navigation, and motor control. This approach has yielded a number of important insights and led to predictions that have been confirmed in studies of living animals.
Dr. Gerald Edelman, the Institute's founder, proposed a broad general theory of how the brain works beginning in 1979. Key aspects of his Theory of Neuronal Group Selection have been confirmed experimentally in a number of laboratories around the world. Much of the Institute's approach is based on this theory, which uses principles of evolution by selection known to be applicable to biology in general and also, for example, to the immune system.
On October 1, 2012, The Neurosciences Institute moved to new quarters in the village of La Jolla, where a vigorous theoretical research program continues. The focus is on understanding how consciousness arises from the activity of the nervous system, one of the most challenging subjects in neuroscience.
From 1995 until the recent move, the Institute also carried out laboratory research in a number of areas including molecular biology of gene regulation, cellular and systems neurophysiology, neural plasticity, genetics of behavior, syntactic processing of music and language, and the temporal dynamics of auditory perception.
During this period, the Institute was housed in an architecturally renowned complex on the campus of The Scripps Research Institute on Torrey Pines Mesa in San Diego. Built around a central plaza, the three buildings include an acoustically superb auditorium, which, through the Performing Arts at The Neurosciences Institute program, was made available at no charge for some 16 years to many non-profit performing arts groups in San Diego. Use of the auditorium is now controlled by its owner, The Scripps Research Institute. For current information see the The Auditorium at TSRI website.
From its founding in 1981 until its move to San Diego, the Institute was located on the campus of The Rockefeller University in New York City. In addition to its own research efforts, the Institute acted as a unique center in which visiting scientists could meet, exchange ideas, and plan new research. Over 900 visiting scientists from 140 institutions and 24 countries participated in conferences, workshops, symposia, or courses at the Institute or were Visiting Fellows for periods of several weeks to several months.
The Institute is also the home of the Neurosciences Research Program (NRP), an informal college founded to promote interdisciplinary studies of the brain. At any one time, there are 36 NRP Associates from institutions around the world; these distinguished scientists serve seven-year terms before becoming Honorary Associates. The group meets each year and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012.


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Launching the government's energy agenda on 15 May, president Michelle Bachelet said the aim of the measures is to reduce costs on Chile's main grid from $151/MWh last year to around $106/MWh by 2017, a drop of 30%.
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Despite its size, Contiki a complex system with multiple layers of interrupts, processes, protothreads, serial port input and output functions, radio device drivers, power-saving duty cycling mechanisms, medium access control protocols, multiple network stacks, fragmentation techniques, self-healing network routing protocols, best-effort and reliable communication abstractions, and Internet application protocols. These run on a wide range of different microprocessor architectures, hardware devices, and is compiled with a variety of C compilers.
Typical Contiki systems also have extreme memory constraints and form large, unreliable wireless networks. How can we ensure that Contiki, with all these challenges, does what it is supposed to do?
Over the years, open source projects have tried different ways to ensure that the code always is stable across multiple platforms. A common approach has been to ask people to test the code on their own favorite hardware in good time before a release. This was the approach that Contiki took a few years ago. But the problem was that it is really hard to get good test coverage, particularly for systems that are inherently networked. Most testers won't have access to large numbers of nodes and even if they have, tests are difficult to set up because of the size of networks that are needed for testing. Also, since people are more motivated to run tests near a release, there may potentially be large numbers of bugs that are found right before the release. It would be great to be able to find those bugs much earlier.
Many projects do nightly builds to ensure that the source code is kept sane. This is something we have done for a long time in Contiki: the code has been compiled with 5 different C compilers for 12 platforms. But this is not enough to catch problems with code correctness, as the functionality of the system is not tested. Testing the functionality is much more difficult, since it requires us to actually run the code.
Fortunately, Contiki provides a way to run automated tests in large networks with a fine-grained level of detail: Cooja, the Contiki network simulator. But taking this to a full regression test framework took a bit of work.
First, to make scripted simulation setups easier, Cooja author Fredrik Österlind wrote a test script framework for Cooja. Second, Github contributors Rémy Léone and Ilya Dmitrichenko developed a travis plugin for Contiki. And now Contiki gets a new regression test framework from Thingsquare Mist.
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Cooja simulate networks of nodes, where each node can be a highly detailed emulator of a specific hardware device. Thanks to mspsim and avrora, Cooja can emulate the TI MSP430 CPU, with a recent addition of the MSP430x architecture, and the Atmel AVR. Nodes can also run non-emulated Contiki code compiled for the native platform, typically the x86.
With Cooja, the regression test framework, and travis, can now run regression tests on every single commit done to the repository. We spot problems early in the development process; even before the code gets into the repository. Although regression tests do not provide a full certainty that the code works in all situations, it does help us spot showstoppers. This lets us all sleep well at night, knowing that any new code in the system is not only reviewed by the Contiki developers and automatically built, but that the code is automatically run in a range of different network setups, with a number of different network protocols, and on multiple platforms and processor architectures.
The regression test framework resides inside directory in the Contiki root, regression-tests/. To run the complete set of regression tests, simply run make in this directory and all tests will run. Each test prints out either OK or FAIL ಠ_ಠ to indicate success or failure of each test.
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01-compile/The directory names start with two digits to create an explicit ordering and allow doing iterative regression testing. For example, if working on the RPL code, go into the 11-rpl/ directory and run make to check that the regression tests for RPL work, without having to run all the other tests that aren't relevant to the RPL code.
Each test directory contains a number of tests. Simulation test directories contain Cooja csc files, who's names also start with two digits. For example, the 02-hello-world/ directory contains:
MakefileThe files that start with two digits are run, in order, when running make in the directory. The file named x03-crosslevel.csc has been disabled, by putting an x in the beginning of the filename.
Some of the tests include hundreds of networked nodes, whereas others contain only a single node. For example, the multithreading and hello-world tests contain only one node each. Some of the IPv6/RPL and Rime tests contain hundreds of nodes, to test the scalability of the network protocols by checking that the behave correctly even if the number of neighbors and routes exhaust the neighbor and routing tables used by the network protocols.
A few statistics for the new regression test setup:
- Number of automated tests: 42
- Number of build platforms: 11
- Number of compiled examples: 38
- Number of C compilers used: 4
- Number of processor configurations tested: 9
- Number of processor architectures tested: 4 (AVR, MSP430, MSP430x, x86)
- Number of network stacks tested: 3 (IPv4, IPv6, Rime)
- Number of network protocols tested: 16
- Total number of network nodes used in the tests: 1021
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Picking up two honors at the Television Critics Association awards show last night, "Sopranos" creator David Chase dropped two obscure hints: receiving the award for outstanding drama, he said, "Here's another clue for you all, the Walrus was Paulie"–a play on the Beatles' "Glass Onion" game-playing on the White Album.
Then, back onstage for the Heritage award (where "The Sopranos" beat out "Sesame Street" among others), Chase told the audience, "when I saw the 'Planet of the Apes' ending, I told my wife, 'so, they had a Statue of Liberty, too!' So that's what you're up against."
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With the announcement of RHEV 3.1, Red Hat moves up a few more rungs on the enterprise-ready virtualization ladder and narrows the gap with key competitor virtualization platforms from VMware and Microsoft. According to Red Hat's statement, the 3.1 release brings with it a series of compelling new features to enhance its scalability, user administration and management interface, networking, storage, and virtual desktop functionality.
[ Also on InfoWorld: VMware vCenter Server 5.1 will soon support Microsoft Hyper-V servers | Microsoft turns the tables on VMware's cost calculator | Track the latest trends in virtualization in InfoWorld's Virtualization Report newsletter. ]
Red Hat is positioning its virtualization offering as the "only mission-critical end-to-end, open source virtualization infrastructure designed for enterprise users that is available today."
To show off its raw power, Red Hat points to the fact that the platform's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor currently holds 19 of the 27 published SPECvirt_sc2010 performance benchmarks. That includes the best 2- and 4-socket scores, perhaps the most common host server type, as well as the only published 8-socket scores, showing off enterprise readiness for large organizations.
Red Hat also claims that its virtualization platform pricing is 50 to 70 percent less than alternative solutions currently on the market, giving RHEV a significant economic advantage over other players. It seems Microsoft isn't the only virtualization vendor playing the pricing card against the competition.
Some of the features found in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 include a new and improved user interface, an improved cross-platform Web administration portal, an updated reporting dashboard, and new networking capabilities.
RHEV 3.1 also continues to improve on the hypervisor platform's scalability by increasing the total number of guest virtual machines each host server can run. With this latest release, RHEV can support up to 160 logical CPUs, up from 64 in the previous release. It also increases support for up to 2TB of memory per virtual machine. The KVM hypervisor has also been updated to support the latest industry-standard x86 processors such as Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs, as well as AMD 15h or Opteron G4 CPUs.
The new release expands its localization enablement with support for English, French, Spanish, simplified Chinese, and Japanese, enabling the platform to be used even more widely around the globe.
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As I began drafting out that adventure it dawned on me that I had yet to share my tomatillo salsa post, which happens to be the star of my upcoming recipe!
Each year I try to select unique, unusual, or new-to-me vegetables to grow. The tomatillo just happens to fit all three of these criteria. Native to Mexico, this nightshade resembles a small, unripe tomato. Enclosed in their paper-like husk, they develop into a green, yellow, red, or purple fruit. It is recommended that you grow more than one, since single plants rarely set fruit due to their high rate of self-incompatibility. I planted three and they ended up producing an obnoxious amount of fruit… all season long! Note to self: plant only two this year!
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5 1/2 cups chopped, cored, husked tomatillos (Wash them well since underneath the husk lies a sticky film!)
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped and seeded green chili peppers (I used my Chinese 5 color peppers. You can substitute a sweet pepper should you not want a hot salsa, you just can't change the amount!)
1/2 cup white vinegar
4 Tbsp bottled lime juice
4 cloves of garlic, minced
2 Tbsp finely chopped cilantro
2 Tsp ground cumin
1/2 Tsp salt
1/2 Tsp pepper flakes
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OHA defends counsel, blasts fired director
Less than two weeks after board commissioners of the Orange Housing Authority (OHA) terminated whistleblower Tanya Wilson effective Friday, March 8, the board elected to make Deputy Director Lanita Brown its new acting executive director on March 19. Board president Mary McKenna said Brown would not be getting an increase in pay to go along with the new position, but commissioner Joe Robinson insisted that Brown had already received a $30,000 pay raise roughly three months ago.
Robinson said the tens of thousands of dollars in pay increases doled out to top employees of the housing authority could have been funds used to serve the tenants of OHA.
"What you're saying is valid," Brown conceded to commissioner Robinson. "But," she added, "you should have said that in December." Brown's salary, according to an unamended OHA payroll budget for 2013, is in excess of $98,000 plus benefits. Other top employees paid under the unaltered payroll budget place former executive director Tanya Wilson with a salary of $145,000, ex-OHA commissioner turned employee the Rev. Raymond Young with a $65,000 annual salary, operation director Karen Knolley with a $90,000 annual salary, account manager Aniji Johnson earning $80,000 annually, and staffer Don Shepherd paid $90,000 annually.
Brown said that no one's salary is safe at this point, however.
"Salaries may be cut trying to keep from having to lay off people," she said. One person who did get cut from employment at the March 19 meeting was the contracted lawn service provider, whose contract the OHA commissioners voted to cancel via a "without cause" clause due to funding issues. Additional victims to funding cuts will also include any prospective new clients of OHA.
"We will not be issuing any new vouchers or having any new move-ins," Brown asserted.
A contract that will not be voided will be that of the board's legal counsel, Germer Gertz. Prior to being fired as the housing authority's executive director, Wilson sent a letter alerting the law firm that their services would no longer be needed for the purposes of general business. OHA board commissioner Mike Combs said he felt Wilson's actions were "illegal" and "inappropriate."
"It was a surprise to me," board president McKenna noted. "It's too late to jump ships from this law firm. …"
Legal counsel affirmed, the board went behind closed doors to confer with their attorney Howell "Chip" Cobb of Germer Gertz about the "status of pending or threatened litigation, claims or other pending legal issues." Although Cobb would not disclose the subject matter of the board's meeting, attorney Cade Bernsen of the Bernsen & Bernsen Law Firm in Beaumont confirmed he has given notice to the OHA board and their legal representatives that he will be representing ousted executive director Wilson in her wrongful termination proceedings from this point.
Orange City Council representative Annette Pernell said she was floored with news that Wilson had been terminated from her post.
"I'm aware that they fired her, and a lot of us need to be upset about that," she said. "But, people don't seem to care. We need to find out what's going on at the housing authority and why we aren't in the loop with what's going on."
Orange City Council representative Essie Bellfield took a proactive approach to finding out what's going on at OHA. Prior to the board's recess to consult with their attorney, Bellfield requested some pointed information from the group pertaining to exorbitant staff salaries.
"You're paying more than I'm paying my city manager, and that's a lot of money," she said, adding that Orange City Manager Shawn Oubre makes less to run the entire city than a housing authority director. "I want to know the educational backgrounds that justify salaries like these."
McKenna did not address Bellfield directly.
"We do not answer questions here," McKenna said. "We appreciate your participation. In the future, we will require that all questions be written in advance."


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Mathematicians enthralled with unending fractals and flux patterns have been known to call math beautiful — but, increasingly, they aren't the only ones. For many artists, calculations and numerical analyses provide a rich source of ideas and methods for their creations.
The annual Bridges conference showcases the connections between art and mathematics. The conference features, among other things, a juried art exhibition full of a staggering range of mathematically-inspired artworks, where you can see sunsets, lampshades, and more examples of the golden ratio than you can shake a shell at.
Here are some of our favorites from the 2013 entrants.
[Read the related feature article "Visions of Math" here.]
This visualization is based on the foraging behavior of the seed harvesting ant P. barbatus, a species which does not use pheromone trails for finding food.
Here, 1000 ants stream out of the nest along six patroller trails and then intermittently break off to initiate random searches for seeds. When seeds are encountered ants collect them and return directly to the nest. The simulation lasts for only 500 time steps.
In nature, typically 1800 ants are foraging at any one time, the patroller trails are not uniform in length or uniformly separated, and foraging continues for several thousand time steps — thus obscuring the foraging patterns and structure we are able to observe and recover using our more modest setup. Color gradations are used to disambiguate the search phase from the return phase and reinforce the dynamic aspects of the process.
This is a self-referential bunny — a sculpture of a bunny, the surface of which is tiled by 72 copies of the word "Bunny."
This piece is part of a larger series of "autologlyphs," following on from HS's "Sphere Autologlyph" from the 2010 Bridges art exhibition. An autologlyph is a word written or represented in a way which is described by the word itself. This style of autologlyph combines Escher-style tessellation with typographical ideas related to ambigrams.
The bunny was created using a technique published by CSK for transferring a symmetric design to a suitably parameterized mesh surface. We modified the technique to require a quarter as many copies of the fundamental domain as compared with the original version. This allowed us to send a smaller (and more affordable) model to the 3D
printer. The design of the word "Bunny" was produced using Adobe
Illustrator, then thickened in 2D, triangulated, mapped to the 3D
surface, and extruded into a thin shell for manufacture.
Musical Flocks is a project in the field of music visualization. It produces animations by simulating the behavior of agents that react to the sound of music. Swarm-like behavior is attained by following rules of separation, alignment and cohesion. This process produces reactive animations and static artifacts that constitute representations of the pieces.
Slow music makes the flock react gently and move slowly, while a high tempo results in fast movement and abrupt changes. Sounds with high volume and rich frequency spectrum affect the majority of the boids, while low volume level and less quantity of active frequencies produces subtle visual variations and a slower graphic evolution.
This series is composed of three visualizations of the piece "Five Armies" by Kevin MacLeod. This musical piece with an epic undertone features a wide variety of instruments (cellos, French horns, trombones, violins, marimba, trumpets, percussion, oboes, clarinets, flutes, basses). The escalating ending provokes large perturbations of the flock leaving a distinct signature in the static and animated pieces.
Stars of the Mind's Sky is the title of a series of works exploring the space of regular star polygons.
Here we see 300 stars "in orbit" along concentric circles. The number of points on a star increases with the radius, and stars of a given number of points are spaced evenly along their circle according to "density," or the "jump number" used in generating them.
Algebraically, these represent the subgroups and cosets generated by elements of a cyclic group. They have been colored on a gradient to indicate the number of cosets; a red star signifies a generating element. As a consequence of these structural choices, we may observe congruent stars with increasingly many cosets, shifting their way to blue along central rays through any red star.
This scarf depicts the Yang-Baxter equation of statistical mechanics, a variation of which is the braid equation in algebra, or the 3rd Reidemeister (equivalence) move in knot theory. Assigning the numbers 1, 2, 3 to the colors blue, green, gold, respectively, the Yang-Baxter equation reads: R12 R13 R23 = R23 R13 R12, where Rij denotes strand i crossing strand j — the two sides of the equation being depicted on the two ends of the scarf, with equality represented by the middle portion.
This digital artwork features four views of the same three-dimensional object, a fractal tiling in which every tile is a similar dart shape.
The starting point is a pair of tiles matched along one long edge. A pair of smaller tiles is fit into each of the V-shaped openings in these starting tiles.
The sum of the angles at each vertex where two of the smaller tiles meet a larger tile is greater than 360 degrees, so the three tiles cannot lie in the same plane. The pairs of smaller tiles alternately buckle up and down to accommodate the fit.
This same simple rule is applied repeatedly through ten generations, resulting in the object shown. This object was created in Mathematica, and PhotoShop was used to create the montage. This is a demonstration of the way in which a complex organic structure can result from a simple set of rules being applied over and over again to a simple starting structure. The resulting object is an intriguing blend of the organic and the geometric.
This work is part of a series of visual meditations on the structure of the alternating group on 5 elements, also known as the icosahedral group.
This group is the smallest non-abelian simple group, and it characterizes the orientation-preserving symmetries of the regular icosahedron and dodecahedron. It also has interesting historical significance as one of the first groups to be studied abstractly, through its connection with the theory of quintic equations.
This image explores the structure of the icosahedral group through a particular presentation by two generators. The group's elements, which appear as yellow disks in this image, are arranged at the vertices of a truncated icosahedron, shown here in stereographic projection, while the group's generators, of orders 2 and 5, correspond to the regions between the disks, colored red and blue, respectively. The image is composed of multiple hand-drawn images which are digitally composited and output as an archival digital print.
Artist Annie Verhoeven has developed a very unusual technique to make her artwork, which she has termed "thread art."
The foundations of this thread-art technique are found in the traditional craft of lace-making. But the finished products are far from traditional: by completely reinventing the old methods and letting go of some of the traditions, lace no longer functions as just a piece of two-dimensional fabric, but becomes art in an enormous variation of sizes, shapes and dimensions.
Mathematics are an integral part of these artworks. It is visible in the finished work; from the way different sections relate to one another to in the proportions of the thread and open space in the work.
"Touch-graph" visualizes a computer program used to show connections between people. The differently colored lines symbolize the different types of connections between people, such as contacts used to consult or, symbolized by another color, the contacts used for discussion. All these different connections are used in our life on every level, be it scientific, religious, political or otherwise, and can help us determine where we stand in the world.
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The USS Constitution passes the Boston skyline as it is tugged back through Boston Harbor in Boston, Mass., Aug. 19. The USS Constitution set sail under her own power in Boston Harbor today for the first time since 1997.
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U.S. Navy personnel gather sails in the rigging of the USS Constitution as the vessel arrives at her berth in Charlestown Navy Yard, in Boston.
The trip marked the day two centuries ago when the Constitution defeated the British frigate HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812. The Guerriere proved no match for the Constitution, which was heavier and longer. The vessels blasted away at each other at close range, even colliding at one point, during the 35-minute battle.
"I cannot think of a better way to honor those who fought in the war as well as celebrate Constitution's successes during the War of 1812 than for the ship to be under sail," Constitution Cmdr. Matt Bonner said in a statement.
--Reported by the Associated Press
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Reenactors from the 1812 Marine Guard stand at attention in the Charlestown Navy Yard.
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The USS Constitution fires one of her guns in Boston Harbor as a crowd looks on from the shore.


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Crysis dev calls for an end to purely solo experiences
For years, numerous pundits have called for the death of single-player games, and while some of us gnash our teeth at the thought of losing solo experiences, the creep of multiplayer has been undeniable. This is good news for Crytek, a studio that apparently can't wait to be rid of single-player.
"I think the notion of a single-player experience has to go away," CEO Cevat Yerli told IGN. "However, I'm not saying that there will be no single-player experiences ... it could be it's called Connected Single-Player or Online Single-Player instead.
"Online and social can reignite single-player in a new type of context and provide benefits that will make you want to be a part of a connected story-mode rather than a disconnected story-mode. Sure, if the technology forces you to play a traditional single-player game online, that doesn't make sense but if it's offering actual benefits to be online then you want to be part of it."
If there's one thing that really irritates me about this industry, it's the sudden and callous desire to see things killed off. The games market seems incredibly quick to discard things at the slightest provocation, or claim something's "dead" at the drop of a hat. This is coupled with a seeming need to see everything homogenize and become the same thing.
Yerli's connected single-player idea? Not a bad idea. In fact, it's been done with Demon's Souls and Dark Souls tremendously. Great idea ... but why does it now need to be every fucking game? This is the same attitude that saw multiplayer crammed into Overlord -- about three people played that shit, and nobody's playing it now. It was a useless waste of time and money, but it had to be done because everybody's doing it. I hate seeing one good idea duplicated to obnoxious excess -- we have Hollywood for that already.
You know what notion needs to go away? The notion that something needs to go away entirely just because you've latched onto one idea that works for a set few games.
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Two trailers for Hawken in one week? It's like Christmas. In August.
While the last one was all moody and only featured a little gameplay, this is mostly in-cockpit shots of rockets firing and guns chattering and big mechs crumpling and exploding all over some of the most beautiful maps we've ever seen in a multiplayer shooter.
Look closely and you'll even see a little third-person hide-and-seek going on.
You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at email@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.


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Montefiore and Einstein Lung Cancer Expert is Appointed to National Cancer Institute Board
Montefiore and Einstein Receive $3.9 Million NCI Calabresi Grant
Professor, Department of Medicine (Oncology)
Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Chief, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine
Roman Perez-Soler, MD, is chairman of the Department of Oncology and chief of the Division of Medical Oncology at Montefiore. He is a professor of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. A native of Spain, Dr. Perez-Soler received his medical degree from Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona, where he also completed a residency in Internal Medicine. He completed his fellowship in Medical Oncology at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Hospital Cancer Center. Dr. Perez-Soler has received numerous awards for his accomplishments, particularly in lung cancer research, and is considered an international cancer expert in experimental cancer therapy.
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U.S. News & World Report (via Healthday) features comments by Dr. Roman Perez-Soler on an experimental cancer drug that is proving effective in treating some lung cancers.


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Matt never talked about the shed in his yard. In the past he'd been rude about it, if I asked him. But I'd never seen the shed door half-open before.
He gazed at me steadily as he often did now. One day five-months ago I caught him staring at me and he blushed.
Now, he's trying to tame the wisps of hair from my face, but neither of us had made a real move.
"Why is the shed half-open?" I asked.
"The basket in the shed door, it's for us. We're going on a fall picnic," Matt said proudly.
I blushed, "Where are we going to have the picnic Matt?"
"In the shed, Aubrey."
"But we're not allowed in there remember? Your Dad said never." I reminded him.
"It was one of my Dad and my Mom's favourite places when Mom was alive. I told my Dad I was taking you on a picnic and he told me to clean up the shed for you; Grandma helped with the decore."
I grinned.
The shed was rustic-sheek, painted in soft ocean-toned colours. There was a loft up top with a queen mattress, thick white cotton sheets, a navy duvet, and several accent pillows.
There was a huge white window with a navy cushion to read on. The shed even had a small kitchen with mini- appliances and a metal and wood island for two, along with a washroom with a matching tiled shower.
I gazed at the ash wood floor as the sun danced across it and back to Matt."This is amazing! You did all this for me?" I asked overwhelmed, tears slipping down my cheeks.
That's when Matt took my chin in his hand and kissed me. It was the first of a lifetime of kisses and memories in our unshedlike hideaway.
My apologies. I think this piece is a bit long, but I can't seem to cut more right now.
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Last week, the REA team took a trip down to The World Financial Center to check out the signage for the up and coming retail addition, which features the logo created by REA. The large banners are currently hanging throughout the Winter Garden and are hard to miss. We are very excited about our design hanging on display and are proud of all the work we did on this project.
To quickly recap, REA produced the idea and strategy for the brand, identity, brochure and renderings, as well as the website. As one of the premier locations for office space in NYC, the WFC offers spectacular views of the Hudson River waterfront, a 10-story Winter Garden, shops and restaurants, and venues to host art exhibits and musical performances. The WFC vision for 2013 includes a new retail streetscape along West Street, 40 local and international retailers, in addition to six restaurants with waterfront access.
REA's Director of Design explains: "The inspiration for the logo came, in part, from the idea that the WFC was painting a new vision for itself — one that included a curated, considered experience — similar to something one would experience in an art gallery. Since WFC is near the water, I thought that the brush strokes of a watercolor painting would work for the logo. I did an initial set of drawings on tracing paper using a wide marker. After about the third one, I knew we had it … but we did another 20-30 just to be certain. Once selected, we scanned the drawing and then converted it to vector outline artwork in Illustrator."
While on our trip, we also ventured outside to the WFC Plaza where we found a series of sculptures created by artist Adrián Villar Rojas. The pieces appear to be large cement blocks beginning to crack on top of wooden desks, but are actually made of clay.
Within several of the blocks are apples that are slowly decaying and being eaten away by the birds. Known for his site-specific massive sculptures that reflect a fascination with parallel universes and outsized alternative worlds, his work titled "Before My Birth" is said to imagine the world through the eyes of the inhabitants of different worlds.


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'Show and Shine' brings in toys for Vidor's Blue Santa program
The first ever Blue Santa "Show and Shine" was held Saturday, Dec. 1, in the Vidor Walmart parking lot from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Vidor Police Department and the Southeast Texas Jeepers, a group of Jeep enthusiasts, held the event to raise toys for the Vidor Police Department's Blue Santa program, which donates toys to needy families and their children for Christmas.
"Show and Shine" brought more than just Jeep owners, however, as there were several classic cars at the event.
"You vote for your favorite vehicle by putting a toy into the vehicle, and, at the end of the day, (the car owner) that has the most toys wins a trophy," said Sgt. Aleta Cappen of the Vidor Police Department and coordinator of the event. "And then there will be a judging of the best decorated vehicle."
"The vehicle owners have a two toy limit entry fee. All the toys are going to Blue Santa," Detective Mark Steele of the Vidor Police Department said. "We've got people out here decorating their vehicles."
Lydia Mansfield's white Jeep won the event. Mansfield said that winning was not important to her and even donated her championship trophy to Claudia Duhon, store manager at Walmart, for allowing the event to be held on their property.
"This event is about giving back to the community and the less fortunate," Mansfield said. "I got involved this year and I loved it. I'll do it again next year."
Vidor Police Department's Blue Santa will continue to take donations until Dec. 8. Verizon Wireless at 1455 N. Main Street in Vidor is one of many drop off locations. Call (409) 769-4561 for more information.